Dante, the great conjurer, performs at the Café Grans, a fashionable hotel-restaurant. Face to a dumbfound patrons he does his most famous tricks among which card manipulations or sawing a woman in half.
If you love dusty, weird old magic shows from the early days of sound, Dantes mysterier is a fun little time machine. But if you need an actual plot or, you know, character development, you’ll probably want to claw your eyes out within ten minutes. 🎩 It is basically just a filmed stage show with a tiny bit of plot ho...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Paul Merzbach
Charles Horan
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"If you love dusty, weird old magic shows from the early days of sound, Dantes mysterier is a fun little time machine. But if you need an actual plot or, you know, character development, you’ll probably want to claw your eyes out within ten minutes. 🎩 It is basically just a filmed stage show with a tiny bit of plot holding the seams together. Dante the Magician—that’s Harry Jansen in real life—performs his act at this fancy place called Café Grans. The audience there looks so incredibly stiff...."
Paul Merzbach
Sweden
