Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
79 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1813 Reviews)
Director:
Josef von SternbergPierre Louès (novel)
John Dos Passos (adaptation)
Sam Winston (continuity)
David Hertz (treatment contributor)
Oran Schee (screenplay)
Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is Sternbergès surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a cafè the older man details his encounters with the heart breaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade. Forewarned, the young man swears he will avoid the fate of his friend, but rushes all the same to his evening rendezvous. A dreamlike story of frustrated, lost romance, spoken in the past tense, never really resolved.
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