L'Auberge du bon repos, sold in the United States as The Inn Where No Man Rests and in Britain as The Inn of "Good Rest",[1] is a 1903 French silent comic trick film by Georges Méliès. Set in an inn, the film addresses the state of the drunken mind with light heartedness.
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| Directed by | Georges Méliès |
| Starring | Georges Méliès |
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Running time | 100 meters |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Production edit
The Inn Where No Man Rests is an expanded version of an earlier Méliès film, The Bewitched Inn (1897). The Moon and a manic chase, as featured in the film, are both common motifs in Méliès's work. As usual for his films, the chase here is circular, within a single set; however, Méliès did eventually try the linear, multi-scene chase format of his contemporaries (such as Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet) in his film A Desperate Crime.[2]
Méliès himself plays the traveler in the film. The table and pendulum are animated using stage machinery; other objects are pulled or suspended using wire, and additional effects are worked using substitution splices. [2] The Inn Where No Man Rests was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 465–469 in its catalogues.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, p. 345, ISBN 9782732437323
- ^ a b Essai de reconstitution du catalogue français de la Star-Film; suivi d'une analyse catalographique des films de Georges Méliès recensés en France, Bois d'Arcy: Service des archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie, 1981, pp. 125–26, ISBN 2903053073
