What a treat to see these two 40-minute films recently restored by the Netherlands Film Museum. The first, "L'Invitation au Voyage" tells the story of an unhappy housewife who seeks love and/or escape in the nightclub of the title. She doesn't find it but we feel her despair and taste her dreams in the scenes of her imagination. This short, told without intertitles and enhanced by a modern score, was far more straightforward than the second, "The Seashell and the Clergyman".
I would be hard-pressed to summarise the film or to tell you what it was about since it was no more than a series of surreal scenes caught by a whirling camera. It was fascinating, however -- a non-stop barrage of wonderful images and trick photography, as the hapless clergyman was caught up in the logic of dreams.
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