Crazy Composer, A (1905)
** (out of 4)
aka Le Compositeur toqué
Lesser film from Melies has a composer trying to come up with his latest piece but he's slowly going crazy from not being able to get anything good. Soon he falls asleep when a mysterious woman approaches and puts on an "act" that will give him the inspiration for his work. I was really surprised to see how lame this film was considering dreams are a subject that the director would visit quite often. This film certainly isn't anything original in terms of the story but Melies does very little with it once the entire dream sequence comes. There's very little magic on display and instead we're pretty much treated to a girlie show as various women dance around followed by some jokers jumping around everywhere. Running just over four minutes, this stuff gets pretty boring very quickly.