國影電影編號：M202206006

放映規格：DCP

級別：保護級

片長：171分鐘

發音：默片

字幕：中文

死去的帕斯卡 Feu Mathias Pascal

Marcel L’Herbier 馬賽．萊赫比耶 | B&W | DCP | 1926 | 默片 Silent | 171 mins

帕斯卡娶了美麗的妻子，卻被擁有強烈控制欲的岳母深深影響，在家鄉的日子竟成為一場噩夢。一次意外新聞誤報了他身亡的訃告，震驚之餘的他趁勢離開家鄉，尋找成為另一個「我」的可能性。帕斯卡是否能擁有新生活，或者仍舊是原先的自己罷了？

本片改編自諾貝爾文學獎得主路伊吉．皮藍德羅的同名長篇小說。雖說是「死去的帕斯卡」，但他其實從未在生理上真正死亡，而是在生活的矛盾中，被迫選擇社會性的死去，爾後冀望重生。離奇的情節瞬息萬變，電影所刻畫的荒誕社會裡，人們生活的意義到底為何？主角害怕喪失自由、自由卻同時改變了自我，特別是影像裡迷宮一般的場景，營造出本片如南柯一夢的奇景。

Following his family’s financial ruin, Mathias works in the library of the village of Miragno. He marries Romilda but is forced to live with his nagging mother-in-law. When his own mother and baby die on the same day, the despairing Mathias flees to Monte-Carlo. Winning a fortune at a casino, he heads for Rome and falls in love with Adrienne. But her husband-to-be steals Mathias’s fortune. Having been declared dead, Mathias cannot go to the police. He returns to Miragno but finds that Romilda has built a new life for herself. Mathias sets off again for Rome.

Based on the 1904 novel Il fu Mattia Pascal written by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, this acclaimed three-hour gem of silent cinema is a vivid romance full of humor and surrealism. It was also one of the most successful French fantasy films of the 1920s.