It only runs for one minute, but this film is among Mélieès' most interesting works. We see a man who has a nightmare, which starts quite nice though as he dreams of a beautiful woman clad in a toga with curly black hair. The moment he wants to hug her, however, she transforms into a male banjo player and afterward into another man. As they finally disappeared the moon outside becomes huge and pretty scary, looks like the one from Méliès possibly most famous film. Finally the three dream creatures appear again and right afterward the dreamer wakes up, checks if there something under his pillow that was responsible for this nightmare and then goes back to sleep. Lots of action for just 60 seconds I know. Quite entertaining short film that may be a good choice to start with when you want to get into the age of silent movies.
Review of A Nightmare
