red-2 Review of Corridor of Mirrors

Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

Obsessive love that borders on madness, or Galatea of the Wax Museum

[7/10 · 18 December 1998]

I thoroughly enjoyed this rather gothic tale of a young woman's love affair with an obsessive connoisseur of beauty, who believes he's loved her before in a past life. The Venetian costume party is certainly a high point, visually, of the picture. The whole film is strangely reminiscent of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, primarily because of eerily smooth camera movement and the elaborate castle setting. How can any romantic not enjoy a murderous love story that ends in Madame Tussaud's wax museum?