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The Dream of an Opium Fiend

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1908 · 5 min Fantasy
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of the bottle. As he is about to drink the glass passes from his hand mysteriously, sailing through the room and out of the window to the moon…

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Original Title Le Rêve d'un fumeur d'opium
Year 1908
Country France
Genre Fantasy
Director Georges Méliès
Runtime 5 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (13 votes)

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The film constructs an opium-induced dream through Georges Méliès's signature trick cuts and theatrical artifice. It explores the haze between reality and hallucination, relying on vanishing acts and levitating objects as the vocabulary of slumber.

What lingers after viewing is the charming, handmade magic of early cinema, where every effect feels like a tangible sleight of hand. It’s a brief, melancholic escape into a phantom world. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Georges Méliès

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