
A woman who has been in a train wreck and lost her memory is mistaken for a vaudeville star, complete with a husband and several children..
Avery Hopwood, Raymond L. Schrock
United States

The reels begin with the hiss of nitrate and the acrid perfume of hot carbon-arc: a locomotive collision rendered in stroboscopic jump-cuts, a woman’s body flung like a rag into the void. What follows is less narrative than a fever dream of Americana—part Barnum hokum, part Kammerspiel confession—where identity is a ...


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" The reels begin with the hiss of nitrate and the acrid perfume of hot carbon-arc: a locomotive collision rendered in stroboscopic jump-cuts, a woman’s body flung like a rag into the void. What follows is less narrative than a fever dream of Americana—part Barnum hokum, part Kammerspiel confession—where identity is a costume you don until the seams scream. Playing the eponymous Judy-cipher, Belle Daube carries the film on the tremulous hinge of her eyelids. Watch the way she tilts her head at ..."


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