Le Voyage Imaginaire
(1926)
Directed by René Clair
Cast:
Dolly Davis ... Lucie
Jean Börlin ... Jean
Albert Préjean ... Albert
Jim Gérald ... Auguste
Paul Ollivier ... The bank director
Maurice Schutz ... The fairy
"Le Voyage Imaginaire" is a really bizarre film that relates the complicated
relationship between three bank clerks and their boss for the typist
girl that works in the same office. Clair creates a dream world which
plunges this group of people into a series of surrealistic and fantasy
adventures that will delight and entertain. There are lady fortunetellers,
fairies, classic story characters and even modern heroes such as "Charlot"
not to mention the "Notre Dame" roofs and the museum "Grévin". That
mixed dream world benefits from using all the special effects known
at that time combined with simple backgrounds that are perfect for
the formal aspect of the story. It all creates an unreal atmosphere,
incredible and dumbfounding at times. Clair directed a very special
film that is thought-provoking and fascinating. 66 Minutes

Included short subject:
The Cartoon Factory (1924)