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Le Rêve d’un fumeur d’opium
FRANCE · 1908

Le Rêve d’un fumeur d’opium

Georges Méliès
opium addiction drug use dream sequences domestic life surrealism
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Synopsis

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid s

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