4/10
The illusionist at work
14 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This short film runs for roughly a minute and shows us another round of Méliès' usual stick. A woman is with him on stage and does some interesting dancing after Méliès presented her to the audience and now the show is really about to start. The woman disappears and appears, but the rest of the film is all Méliès. As he tricks us into thinking the woman is about to disappear again, it's actually he who does. And come back at a totally different position of the the stage. This is repeated a couple times and it made an okay watch. Really shouldn't have run much longer or otherwise it may have dragged or become too repetitive. Worth a watch for silent film enthusiasts, video quality's unfortunately not too great here. Films from 5 years earlier occasionally had better ones.
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