The story of Paul who one day meets a young dancer who is the double of the dead wife he worships. Their meeting triggers a nightmare that takes him on a midnight journey through dark canals, memories, to a theater performance in a graveyard where he learns darker truths. Filmed on location in historic Bruges.
Cinematography
Bruges becomes a rotting fairytale, every canal a mirror to hell.
Production
Actual historic Bruges locations shot with genuine Gothic decay.
Acting
Richard Easton's unraveling is quiet, then devastating.
Director
Ronald Chase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Georges Rodenbach's 1892 Symbolist novel that essentially invented Bruges as 'the dead city'—tourism still hasn't recovered.
Anthony Daniels plays Pierrot between Star Wars shoots; C-3PO's mime phase deserves more respect.
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