A Page of Madness (Le surréalisme au cinéma)

A Page of Madness 

Kurutta Ichipeji Japon 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | film muet sans intertitres – copie sonore | 70’ | digital | Cast : Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa

> Silent film without intertitles and with a pre-recorded score by Alloy Orchestra

In Japan, a man takes a job as a janitor at a mental asylum in order to be near his wife. Although his wife suffers genuine mental anguish, the man believes he can rescue her -- but his attempt to break her out one night backfires when she panics…

« The combination of the images presented on screen, the cinematic techniques and the impervious, and quite fitting music by the Alloy Orchestra (who produced a new score for the film) result in an audiovisual extravaganza, a truly impactful experience that is quite difficult to explain to ones who have not witnessed the film. » (Asian Movie Pulse)