THE FAITHFUL HEART

Marie (Gina Mnès) is an orphan raised by a couple who run a bar in the port of Marseille. She is the object of desire of Little Paul (Edmond Van Daele), a feared gangster. Maria, on the other hand, is in love with the romantic Jean, but a fight between the two sets the love triangle on a different path from the one desired by the two protagonists… Epstein’s film, set in the heart of the port of Marseille, is deeply influenced by Abel Gance. Two of the film’s sequences remain famous, the shot of the protagonist’s face superimposed on the background of the sea, as if it were the lover’s daydream, and the final scene of the two lovers flying in the merry-go-round, edited with a series of subjectives and later also used by Alfred Hitchcock in ‘Stranger on a train’…