Juve Contre Fantomas
The second in Louis Feuillade's enormously popular series recounting the exploits of Fantomas, the bandit with the black hood; his mistress Lady Beltham; Juve, the policeman who is chasing him; and Fandor, a journalist, forms a complete story within itself, even though it ends as usual with the escape of Fantomas leaving the audience with a big question mark.

“An interesting aspect of Fantomas is that the exteriors were shot on location, showing us Paris' picturesque streets while the interiors were careful reconstructions of bourgeois-furnished apartments. The mystery abounds and the realistic settings lend to the film a very poetical atmosphere. After watching it, we can really understand why it was a favorite of the surrealists and of Apollinaire, who could find in it the true poetry of the French capital.”