Director: Jean Epstein Year: 1923 Runtime: 1 hr 27 min Source: Archive.org (English subs found elsewhere online) Part of the reason I'm using this list is the high possibility of great unknown foreign classics, and this definitely fits that bill. Faithful Heart is an extremely early example of what would Quentin Tarantino once characterized as the classic stereotype of European film-making: the plot is painfully simple and there are few surprises, but it hits home because of effective editing and pacing. In this case, we have an orphaned girl Marie who falls in love with a kind dockworker Jean, but is forced by her cruel adoptive parents to marry a local drunkard with the unfortunate name Petit Paul. Jean and Petit Paul end up brawling, Jean ends up in jail while Petit Paul escapes, and by the time Jean gets out Petit Paul and Marie have an infant child. I won't spoil the end, except to say that no one comes out of this story looking very responsible, sav...
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