la chute de la maison usher and or the fall of the house of usher a it know amongst english audience and start with allan ( charles lamy ) head for the castle of his good friend sir roderick usher ( jean debucourt ) who send him a letter say that his wife madeleine be ill. once there allan find madeleine very sick and her husband roderick determine and almost obsess to paint her portrait . a roderick paint madeleine becomes weak and weak almost a if the picture be drain the life out of her and allan try to help his friend but tragedy soon strike . this french production be co write and produce and direct by jean epstein and be the second of two film the fall of the house of usher adaptation during 1928 and honestly i do not know the original novel be publish in 1839 and i mean you wait 89 year for a filmed adaptation and two come along at the same time . anyway and i feel that i have a bit of a problem here a i have read plenty of positive comment about la chute de la maison usher and maybe i be not the right sort of person to write a comment on it but i have to say that it simply do not do anything for me . i do not like it and obviously the first thing to say be that this be a silent film and therefore it rely on imagery but even so i think the story be weak and i think a a whole the film be bore and dull even though it only last for about an hour and it really do not do anything for me at all . la chute de la maison usher be make almost 80 year ago and that be literally a lifetime and the world and cinema and taste have move on a lot since then and i find no enjoyment in this film . i feel this film have date badly and probably wasn not that good to start with anyway . i never felt for any of the character and i never care about anything that be happen and i find it all rather tedious to sit through and i be sorry if i have offend any silent film fan out there but that the way i felt . director epstein do an ok job and a lot of people ramble on about the imagery in la chute de la maison usher and i will freely admit it definitely have it moments but i think they be few and far between . shot of people mouth move and not actually hear what they say just seem weird to me and i do not like the music and the version i saw keep the original french language insert card which be narrate by guy with the most awful sound thick french accent which be also off put . base on the story by edgar allen poe i doubt this have much resemblance to it apart from one or two basic element and stick with the fantastic roger corman house of usher star vincent price . technically the film be ok consider when it be make . you simply can not tell about the acting a no one ever speak although the film be full of unnatural exaggerated movement to try and suggest emotion or reflect what happen which work to an extent but after a while just look a bit daft . la chute de la maison usher will appeal to those who crave a bygone era and who live in cave or who be stick in the past and for me i like my film to have a story and not to bore me and to have sound and i be sorry if that last statement make me sound like an uneducated idiot but that how i feel . the world have move on since 1928 and for the good .