All from Maurice Tourneur’s beautiful LA MAIN DU DIABLE (THE HAND OF THE DEVIL) — a sort of moving tableaux sequence that tells the history of the satanic mitt around which the narrative revolves. I had these images left over and didn’t want to let them go to waste.
The rest of the movie has a more conventionally photographed and designed feel, with composition in depth rather than reduced to the appearance of a Lotte Reininger silhouette film. But it’s still magnificently moody, a supernatural romantic noir along the lines of Duvivier’s FLESH AND FANTASY ~