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The first time I saw Le Baron Mystère I walked out convinced the projectionist had spliced in strips of my own nightmares between the intertitles; the second time I stayed for the organist’s improvised coda and felt the seats breathe. There are films you watch and films that watch you—this one keeps your change purse...


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Maurice Challiot

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" The first time I saw Le Baron Mystère I walked out convinced the projectionist had spliced in strips of my own nightmares between the intertitles; the second time I stayed for the organist’s improvised coda and felt the seats breathe. There are films you watch and films that watch you—this one keeps your change purse and mails back the ashes. A Paris stitched from smoke and gossip Director André Scherer, better known before 1925 for seaside postcards and a scandal involving three dachshunds,..."


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