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Programme 01 · The Midnight Programme
The Phantom of the Opera
Directed by Rupert Julian
Below the Paris Opera, a masked composer keeps a singer in the dark. Above, the chandelier is already falling in the public imagination.
Screening note
Less a love story than a study of the auditorium as a hiding place. The unmasking remains one of the great cut-ins.
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“The audience is always complicit.”
Public-domain cinema. This prototype does not host or stream the film. A production build would resolve playback through a licensed, region-aware provider.
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