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1	[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/entr.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:280:Don't even ask]]
3	''Entr'acte'' is a 1924 French short film directed by Creator/ReneClair.
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5	It was originally intended to play during, literally, the ''entr'acte'' (that is to say, the {{Intermission}}) of a ballet performance. The ballet in question was called ''Relâche'', [[TrollingCreator a French word normally used to indicate that a theatrical performance has been cancelled]]. The ballet was written by Music/ErikSatie, who also wrote the music for the film.
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7	Like the ballet it was created for, ''Entr'acte'' was part of the {{UsefulNotes/Dada}} movement. As such, it doesn't exactly have a plot. Amongst all the unrelated surrealistic images, the most sensical storyline that can be picked out involves a man who shoots an [[BuffySpeak egg thing]] and falls off a building, which is then followed by his strange funeral.
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9	!!Tropes:
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11	* DisneyVillainDeath: Someone shoots the hunter, causing him to fall off the building he's standing on. [[FuneralCut Cut to his funeral.]]
12	* TheFunInFuneral: It was a normal funeral, give or take a camel, until the hearse started rolling away and everyone had to chase after it for miles.
13	* HeadPet: After the hunter shoots the egg, a bird flies out and lands on his hat.
14	* MagicWand: At the end, the hunter/magician uses a wand to vanish everyone, ending with himself.
15	* NotQuiteDead: At the end of their merry chase after the hearse, the hunter pops out of his coffin alive.
16	* {{Overcrank}}: The early part of the funeral march is in slow motion.
17	* StopTrick: Used for the vanishing effect at the end.

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