Judex (1963)
Directed by Georges Franju
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
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Yet just when you're ready to throw up your hands and walk out, there's a scene of Lavant gliding around Paris like some silent-movie character out of "Judex" or "Fantomas," or an image of him wandering through a derelict department store with a lost love, that reminds you of how much you love the movies.
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