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Bad dream couture: How noir ‘Nightmare Alley’ got its carnival look

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latest film — about a small-time carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) who grifts his way into high society by claiming to read minds and commune with the dead — has all the trappings of the genre: drunk degenerates and femme fatales; dimly lit streets and stalking shadows; greed, lust, murder, hubris and a creeping existential dread.

And it’s based on William Lindsay Gresham’s scandalous 1946 noir novel of the same name.But stylistically, it looks more like a lush costume drama than a hard-boiled crime flick.“We decided that we didn’t want to make it a film noir, but really base it in reality,” production designer Tamara Deverell told The Post about creating the movie’s intoxicating atmosphere.

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