Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

7.8

Plot: On her way back home, a solitary woman picks up a frail flower, and then she drops her key--and when she finally enters her home--exhausted--she falls asleep in a deep and comfortable armchair. However, even in her intimate dreams, an intangible and elusive dark presence blemishes her afternoon nap--she tries to catch it, but in vain. Now, bizarre but perfect doppelgängers of her physical self materialise in the house, catching a glimpse of a record player playing a never-ending silent tune, a telephone, and a sharp bread knife, as the already confined environment becomes more and more a maze-like purgatory. The knife thirsts for blood; the woman hungers for a way out. Can the undivided mind/matter entity escape consciousness?

Alternative Plot: Every time a woman falls asleep, she sees a masked man leaving flowers.

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