What if your marriage was just a really long, legally binding magic trick?
The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
Acting
Elisa Galvé's eyes do the heavy lifting — doubt never looked so glamorous.
Direction
Schlieper stages domestic spaces like velvet-trap theaters.
Director
Carlos Schlieper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1940s Argentine cinema was Hollywood-obsessed but legally freer — this hybrid of noir and domestic comedy only works in that specific industrial moment.
The hypnosis gimmick lets the film ask questions about marital consent that the Production Code would've crushed in a US studio picture of the same era.
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