The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy (1921)
La Belle dame sans merci
Overview
"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
What is The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy about?
"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 The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy is a Drama, Romance movie, released on 1921-04-22, runtime 80 minutes.
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Directed by
Germaine Dulac
Cast
- Tania Daleyme as Lola de Sandoval
- Yolande Hillé as Irène
- Denise Lorys as Comtesse d'Amaury
- Jean Toulout as Comte Guy d'Amaury
- Jean Tarride as Hubert d'Amaury
- Pierre Mareg as Marquis de Saint-Érasme
- Lucien Glen as Lucien
- Louis Monfils
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