"It is written!" shouts a hostess of a dinner party after the evening's entertainment, a palm-reader, announces that one of her guests will soon marry. Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia. The characters in this film waver between feeling bound by immovable circumstances and questioning whether they can willingly change their futures. Of the three stories, the best-known is the middle sequence in which Edward G Robinson is haunted by the palmist's prediction that he will commit murder. I enjoyed the third: a high-wire artist dreams he falls to his death, and he struggles to overcome the feeling that the dream was a warning.
The imagery of the masks in the first sequence (above) are wonderful - reminded me of James Ensor's work.
Intrigue, James Ensor (1911).
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