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The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy

1921-04-22
6
fr 80m
DramaRomance
"Taking its title from John Keats’s early 19th-century poem, this highly personal melodrama finds Dulac interrogating the archetype of the femme fatale. La belle dame sans merci follows a famous actress who was once seduced and abandoned by a rich man and subsequently resolved to become a “merciless woman,” forever scheming to hurt others (men in particular) in a ruthless yet captivating manner. Dulac challenges the Romantic archetype embodied in Keats’s poem by way of symbolist mise en scène, self-reflexive narration, and her typically associative approach to editing, locating a modern ambiguity within the stereotypical figures of 19th-century art." - Film Society of Lincoln Center

Cinematography

Jacques Oliver

Director

Germaine Dulac

Adaptation

Germaine Dulac

Story

Irène Hillel-Erlanger

woman director

Status

Released

Countries

  • France

Companies

  • D.H.