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Entr'acte

1924
Short Film
22m
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear. (imdb)
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Entr'acte

1924
Short Film
22m
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Rated 08 Apr 2007
80
94th
With one of first minimalist musicians Eric Satie, this short has tremendous visual exploration. Meaningless, but aesthatically justified events happen one after another. Slo-mo human motion, sunlight-burnt visual explorations that resembles videoart, a film band twisted with every prehistorical technique of cinema. Hilarious and fun.
Rated 04 Feb 2008
90
85th
It was nice to watch some fun Surrealism again after those ponderous Maya Deren films. This film is pure nonsense, yet it's full of great imagery and paced like a regular movie, which makes it very engrossing. Great music, too, and it gets wonderfully seizure-enducing at the end.
Rated 05 Feb 2015
5
70th
wasn't into it to begin with, but the chase sequence was thrilling. perhaps about the irrevocable forward momentum that encapsulates all forms of modern life. still, i find it difficult to appreciate surrealism as much as other forms of abstraction, because it's so constantly trying to say things and subvert your expectations that it can be difficult to enjoy on a purely aesthetic level. the best experiments work the other way around. this is definitely one of the best surrealist films though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
84th
A classic of Dada filmmaking, with a screenplay by Francis Picabia, beautiful music by Erik Satie and a cast including such giants as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Darius Milhaud. And they're chasing a coffin (you heared it).
Rated 25 Sep 2007
20
2nd
Oooohh...I'm an artist. Love me.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
80
61st
A pretty fun surrealist film.
Rated 09 Jul 2008
7
67th
Stupid fun.
Rated 19 Nov 2008
75
73rd
Don't mess with people in coffins!
Rated 27 Nov 2009
68
55th
A fun surrealist short but I wouldn't recommend it as a movie itself. Treat it as a music video for Satie's great composition, it will work better this way.
Rated 07 Aug 2010
94
97th
men in top hats skipping in slow motion = the best
Rated 23 Sep 2010
80
80th
While it's not storytelling at it's most gripping, this is experimental film making at it's most playful, something every cinephile should wholeheartedly support. Watch here: http://www.ubu.com/film/clair_entracte.html
Rated 11 Oct 2010
50
33rd
Not as fun or as interesting as other pieces of Dada cinema I have witnessed
Rated 19 Jan 2012
58
61st
Well, that was just absurd and hilarious. Maybe Dadaism and surrealism works best when it's in the pursuit of fun. Great music and great conclusion.
Rated 22 May 2013
70
44th
The music did my head in. The images were nice though, kinda fun.
Rated 04 Jul 2013
60
80th
Beautiful, fun, surreal film. Haven't seen this for a while.
Rated 08 Dec 2013
86
84th
A fun ride. Full of exciting cinematic trickery. Also worth reading too deeply into.
Rated 09 Mar 2014
75
57th
What started off as a silly comedic piece, one of the thousands from the silent area, became something more in the end. One of those films that we enjoy tremendously, yet we never know what it was all about. The music is fitting as well.
Rated 23 Apr 2015
35
50th
More nonsensical than clever, though I can see how it would work in context, bringing a dose of heightened absurdity to the middle third of an already Dadaist ballet. Honestly, though, I think I was more interested in Satie's boisterous and often humorous score than anything happening onscreen (you can appreciate it better in more modern audio recordings than the ones usually attached to the film, and you usually get it in the context of the full ballet score that way).
Rated 22 Nov 2015
72
78th
Trying to achieve a true state of nonsense with such an intent behind it, lacking the existential fuckery of that german beer commercial shortmean, it's nonsense. But nonsense can be fun too, even though this film doesn't really show it.
Rated 01 Feb 2016
5
81st
The chase sequence was great. Amazing music.
Rated 07 Feb 2016
75
65th
This stuff isn't really my thing but it is a fun watch.
Rated 10 Sep 2016
72
53rd
Has a sense of humor about itself, which really helps to get over some of the inherent weirdness of dadaism. Some of the juxtaposition is brilliant. But it gets a bit repetitious, and is hard to enjoy the entire time.
Rated 15 Nov 2018
55
31st
Not sure if I just witnessed art or got trolled for 20 minutes. Seemed more like a music video now that I think about it. Wouldn't recommend watching this one whilst tripping balls, it became quite hectic and deranged towards the end. Music scored by Satie (who also stars in the first portion) synchronized very fittingly with the film though, and you get to see 20's gentlemen skipping to the beat, so there's that.
Rated 08 Sep 2021
75
80th
Rollercoaster crazy sequence might be the best part of me. It plays like a surrealist essay on a bunch of urban themes, everything filtered by pure movement, action and images dancing like in a cinematic dream.
Rated 24 Sep 2021
0
1st
Well, anybody who calls this art and claims to enjoy watching it is a pathetic conformist that has no courage to tell the truth. 20th century have seen many untalented idiots who claimed to find a "new way of art", in fact they were just unable to produce great art like their ancestors did and produced some meaningless, empty products instead.
Rated 21 Feb 2022
70
56th
picabia is cuute
Rated 10 Sep 2023
56
16th
Weird but kind of interesting short with all sorts of early film tricks from slow motion to reverse action and many others. Not enough here for me to really enjoy it or anything but there are some interesting shots.

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