Mr. Fantômas
MovieTitle | Monsieur Fantômas |
User score | 7.1 |
Release date | Dec 29, 1937 |
Genre | Drama, Mystery |
Director | Ernst Moerman |
Production country | Belgium |
Production companies | Films Hagen-Tronje |
Run time | 17 min. |
Monsieur Fantômas is very rich in terms of surrealist images― e.g. three mysterious masked men cycling across the beach in slow motion, Inspector Juve’s assistants breaking down a door in the middle of the sand with the help of a gigantic key used as a battering ram, the two lovers' romantic and rather gripping walk along the seaside (he is masked, while she is wearing a nun’s wimple and a swimming suit) hand in hand... But one image stands out from all the rest: the sequence in which Fantômas is surrounded by police.