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Bookmark this pageLe Fantôme du Moulin Rouge (1924)
Director: René Clair
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From Time Out Film Guide
Made immediately after the experimental short Entr'acte, this uses many of the same devices - superimposition, trick effects, comic occurrences caused by 'magic' - but harnesses them to a much more conventional narrative. A young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement. This reconciliation of romantic comedy and surrealist gags, using fantasy to present avant-garde motifs, is typical of Clair, as is the largely irrelevant but utterly inspired 'Eccentrics' Bar' sequence.Author: AS
Cast & crew
Director: René Clair
Producer: René Fernand
Cast: Albert Préjean, Sandra Milovanoff, Georges Vaultier, José Davert, Maurice Schutz, Paul Olivier full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 6 mins
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