Episodic tale of a woman who quarrels with her husband over her obsession with buying clothes. After the argument she falls asleep, and a series of related dreams revolves around the dress and a sable wrap she bought that started the argument, showing her snippets of the lives of the various people involved in the making of the dress and the fur.
Imagine a film that predates both The Crowd and L’Age d’Or yet already senses the vertigo of commodity fetishism: Charles Brabin’s Blind Wives is that uncanny fossil, a 1920 one-reeler that feels like someone left a Buñuel negative too close to the radiator. What begins as drawing-room bickering—wife covets sable, hu...
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" Imagine a film that predates both The Crowd and L’Age d’Or yet already senses the vertigo of commodity fetishism: Charles Brabin’s Blind Wives is that uncanny fossil, a 1920 one-reeler that feels like someone left a Buñuel negative too close to the radiator. What begins as drawing-room bickering—wife covets sable, husband brandishes ledger—mutates into a hypnagogic grand tour of the supply chain, every panel of the dream quilted with the lives that financed her vanity. Plot as Palimpsest: How..."
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