So Long at the Fair

So Long at the Fair

1950 · 81 min · EN · NR · 6.8 (28 votes)
Dir. Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher · Starring Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Honor Blackman · Music Benjamin Frankel

Paris ! ... city of love and intrigue ... scene of the most fascinating mystery ever filmed !

DramaMysteryThriller

Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.

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A dreamlike descent into paranoia set against the grandeur of Belle Époque Paris. The film masterfully blurs reality and delusion, leaving you questioning everything alongside the protagonist.

disorientingsuspensefulmelancholicunsettlingslow-burnperiod dramanoir-tingedatmosphericpsychological thrillermemorygaslightingidentityobsession
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hotelparisfrancebased on novel or bookdisappearance19th centuryworld's fairparis expobrother sister relationship
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