Director
Germaine Dulac
Screenplay
Denys Amiel, André Obey, Germaine Dulac
Cinematography
Maurice Forster, Paul Parguel, A. Morin
Producer
Charles Delac, Marcel Vandal
Production
Colisée Films [FR]
Cast
Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillière, Jean d'Yd, Yvette Grisier, Madeleine Guitty, Raoul Paoli
Synopsis
Germaine Dulac, a multidisciplinary artist, was one of the pioneers of feminist cinema in Europe thanks to this film in which she tells the story of Madame Beudet, a respectable bourgeois housewife whose life has an apparent placid course but hides a background of weariness and exhaustion due to an unsatisfactory married life
Format
B&W
World Sales-Distribution
Light Cone
Filmography
Germaine Dulac
FRANCE (1882-1942)
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
1929 ÉTUDE CINÉGRAPHIQUE SUR UNE ARABESQUE / ARABESQUE [short]
1928 LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN / THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN [short]
1927 L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE / INVITATION TO A JOURNEY [short]
1923 LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET [short]
1919 LA CIGARETTE / THE CIGARETTE [short]
FRANCE (1882-1942)
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
1929 ÉTUDE CINÉGRAPHIQUE SUR UNE ARABESQUE / ARABESQUE [short]
1928 LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN / THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN [short]
1927 L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE / INVITATION TO A JOURNEY [short]
1923 LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET [short]
1919 LA CIGARETTE / THE CIGARETTE [short]
Notes
With piano music by Debussy, works by Ravel, Gounod and Dora Pejacevic and original compositions by Humberto Armas. Performed live by the IBF Ensemble, as a chamber group, conducted by Humberto Armas
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