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La Locura de París es uno de esos singulares film documento en los que una leve trama argumental sirvió como excusa para presentar algunos de los mejores momentos musicales de la temporada teatral... ¡en un film mudo! La Locura de París incluía fastuosos números musicales de "La Revue Mistinguett", "Femmes et Sports" y "Un vent de folie" que triunfaban en el Moulin Rouge, el Palace y el Folies Bergère respectivamente. Para magnificar su espectacularidad, estos números musicales fueron minuciosamente coloreados con el innovador sistema patheColor. En dos de ellos aparece una arrolladora Josephine Baker, la auténtica "locura de París" a finales de los años 20, interpretando decorosamente vestida lo que sólo en escena y en las fotos promociónales dejaba muy poco a la imaginación. (FILMAFFINITY
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In a strange bank, a young clerk, in love with a typist, gets asleep after a minor incident. His dream sarries him into the retirement house of old fairies, that he will manage to help to grow younger. He then lands on the towers of Notre-Dame, and into the Musée GRévin, where a revolutionary court is in the process of judging the lovers, one of them soon being changed into a dog. But it was just a dream, and the journey ends up well...
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Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
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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.
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Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
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La vida del payaso Riquet y su esposa, la bailarina Ralda, se ve amenazada por el propietario del circo donde trabajan, que desea a la joven y no dudará en intentar asesinarla cuando ésta lo rechaza.
