Amazing (for Americans) sublime, romantic story in the Gothic entourage of old Venice.
The action takes place in a very atmospheric huge mansion, where lives a hundred-year-old old woman and her beautiful niece (although, rather granddaughter or even great-granddaughter) performed by actress Susan Hayward.
Susan, if you go back to our time, probably was the model for the image of the famous cartoon beauty vamp Jessica Rabbit. In the film “The Lost Moment”, she creates a mysteriously complex, dual image: on the one hand, she is an extremely prime young lady, drawn in a deaf black dress, but she has another, opposite hypostasis, with which the hero, an American publisher posing as a writer, will unexpectedly encounter.
That is, on this side of the mystery and duality, and the owner of the mansion, Julianne Bordeaux, drowning in a carved chair and black lace, is not so simple. ..
If someone decided to film this story in our days, it would be possible to create a confusing psychological thriller, placing the characters in the atmosphere of gloomy European Gothic, in the walls of an ancient mansion where deadly secrets, mad love, greed and timid hopes for happiness live. Where mysteriously flicker stained glass and mirrors, where at night comes to life somewhere behind the walls of the piano, and in the corners hide either ghosts, black cats, or timid beauties.
But today, alas, romantic stories attract few. It's very, very wrong!