Movie

A Page of Madness

1926 · 72 min

A haunting, dreamlike plunge into guilt and madness, told through fragmented images and unsettling silence.

Overview: An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life. Crushed by guilt and powerless to change what has happened, he remains at the clinic as a janitor. Soon, their daughter arrives to inform him of her upcoming wedding, and with her arrival come painful memories and tormenting visions.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, madness, family, memory
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
madness
family
memory
isolation
Places: hospital
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none