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Post #1561597

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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Date created
22-Oct-2023, 11:06 AM

Warning Shadows - 1923 - 6/10
AKA - Schatten: Eine Nächtliche Halluzination

Perhaps a high-water mark in Expressionistic cinema, but this may prove tedious for many.
A successful man suffers a young wife with a roving eye.
Suitors arrive at a house party: three older man, and a youthful stud.
Whom the flirtatious wife clearly has designs on.

Then there is the puppet show by a practitioner who may be using actual magic.
Aside from opening cast introductions, there are no inter-titles. No dialogue, no comments on actions.
Audiences must infer everything in this garish, if slow, blend of horror, melodrama, surreal.