(La Belle dame sans merci)

Content: "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

Countries:

France

Genres:

Drama,

Romance

Runtime:

80 minutes

Year:

1921

Directors:

Germaine Dulac

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Production companies:

D.H.

Actors:

Lola de Sandoval

Irène

Comtesse d'Amaury

Comte Guy d'Amaury

Hubert d'Amaury

Crews:

Director

Cinematography

Story

Adaptation