Violette de Lestrange

In the Emerald City, two conjoined sisters, cabaret dancers Ligéia and Séraphine, drift between dimensions, sustained by the visions of a witch-mother who weaves their fate. Through their wanderings and fractured dreams emerge a shadowed magician and an enigmatic beast, avatars of desire and covetous longing. A hallucinatory tale with the bitterness of absinthe, the film summons metamorphosis through a sensual, dream-born odyssey. A haunting exploration of twinship, where bodies divide, seek one another, and become doorways to other worlds.

A fever-drenched descent into the occult underbelly of Tinseltown, where fallen starlets and demonic muses wage war beneath flickering marquees. Neon bleeds, contracts are signed in flesh, and the silver screen becomes an altar of possession and decay. In this surreal apocalypse of fame, desire is ritual, and every spotlight burns like a curse.

A surreal, intimate, and erotic journey: a quest for art and love, embodied by a mysterious Djinn. Tormented poetess, vampiress, ghost, witch, dancer, or doll—so many avatars of the creative woman, engaged in a constant interplay with temporality. “Poupée de Nuit” is the dreamlike voyage of an artist through the labyrinth of desire, confronting passion and its enigma.