“Robinet has an insupportable mother-in-law, who moreover so influences his wife as to turn her into a copy of herself. To escape her odious presence, Robinet invents for himself a work trip, but the mother-in-law continues to obsess him with regular appearances in his dreams, in which she appears in the cos­tume of coachman, waiter, lover, etc. At last, waking with a start, he tries to drive away this incubus with his pillows. Fully awakened, Robinet realizes that he has only achieved disaster by wrecking his own bedroom; and moreover has succeeded in waking his mother-in-law, who was sleeping in the next room and immediately arrives to resurrect the incubus in reality”.

Anonymous, “Erste Internationale Film-Zeitung”, Berlin, 22 February 1913

“Bravo, Marcel! A beautiful brainwave and beautiful acting. The public laughed a lot, and I confess, for once, so did I”.

Felice Metellio, “La Cine-Fono e la Rivista Fono-Cinematografica”, Naples, 20 March 1913 (extracts cited in Aldo Bernardini, Vittorio Martinelli, Cinema muto italiano 1913 – seconda parte, Bianco & Nero, ERI, Roma, 1994)