The Phantom Gondola (1936)
- Original title
- La gondole aux chimères
- Directed by
- Camillo Mastrocinque, Augusto Genina
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man and a woman fall into a doomed romance set around a mysterious gondola in Venice. Their affair is shadowed by secrets from the past and the weight of their own desires.
melancholicromanticdreamlikeelegiacslow-burnatmosphericpoignantunderstated
What happens
The Phantom Gondola (Italian: La gondola delle chimere) is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard. The film was a co-production between the two countries shot at the Cines Studios in Rome and based on a 1926 novel by Maurice Dekobra. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Sous la terreur (1936)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.