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    The Smiling Madame Beudet

    Germaine DULAC 1923 France Fiction b/w 54min DCP
    An early feminist classic, this film is considered Dulac's impressionist masterpiece. Based on an avant-garde play of the same title by André Obey, this film presents the inner life of a young modern woman hoping to escape an oppressive marriage.

    Director

    Germaine DULAC

    Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) was an important avant-garde filmmaker and theorist of the 1920s whose work has been vastly underappreciated in this country. This program of silent films contains three short abstract works whose structure is based on musical models, one a Debussy arabesque. The fourth, The Smiling Madame Beudet, often considered her greatest film, is a probing psychological study of a married woman's emotional and sexual frustrations. Debussy's music is an actual element in the plot and takes on a crucial symbolic role.

    Germaine DULAC

    1929 Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque 阿拉伯花飾

    1928 Princesse Mandane 芒達妮公主

    1928 Spanish Dance 西班牙舞蹈

    1928 The Seashell and the Clergyman貝殼與僧侶

    1927 Invitation to a Journey旅行的邀請

    1922 The Smiling Madame Beudet微笑的布迪夫人

    1922 The Death of the Sun 太陽之死

    1919 The Cigarette

    1915 Les soeurs enemies

    Director: Germaine Dulac

    Screenwriter: Germaine Dulac, André Obey

    Producer: Marcel Vandal, Charles Delac

    Cinematographer: Paul Parguel, Maurice Forster

    catherine.wang@diplomatie.gouv.fr

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