Ghosts of Gatsby (2018)

After a curtain-raising 1920’s songbook, we see Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, in the French Riviera, 1924. Scott, obsessed by work on The Great Gatsby, is jealous of Zelda's extramarital affair, while Zelda is smothered by the alcoholic Scott. In a fit of rage, Scott locks Zelda in a bedroom. She has visions of her younger and older selves. As the argument with Scott resumes and intensifies, Scott strikes Zelda and she attempts to dismiss the apparitions as unreal; but the oldest Zelda dismisses her. The entire scene has been a hallucination of the oldest Zelda, locked in a burning insane asylum.

Samford University, 2018