Altura Films
Directed by Orson Welles
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
An aging wealthy merchant in China has only his faithful bookkeeper as a companion. He becomes obsessed with making an old sailor's story reality: offering a sailor money to impregnate his wife. Since he is not married, he sends his bookkeeper to find a woman for the role of the wife, then picks up a destitute sailor off the streets who is more than happy to oblige. The woman has a connection to the old man, her own father having been driven to bankruptcy and suicide through business dealings, so she hopes to extract some revenge. It more or less goes off as planned, then the two lovers go their own way. However, the old man dies before finding out whether or not the story become reality. Short but dream-like Welles, photographed in stunning color. Originally part one of an anthology that was never finished, but still quite worthwhile.
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