La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922, Germanie Dulac)

The Smiling Madame Beudet //
La Souriante Madame Beudet

La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) is a short French silent film made in 1922, directed by famed surrealist director Germaine Dulac. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "feminist" films. It tells the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

Director: Germaine Dulac
Writers: Denys Amiel (play), Germaine Dulac (screenplay)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013626/

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  Film & Animation

[Elodie Collin]

En revanche le nom de la réalisatrice n'est pas " Germanie Dulac" mais GERMAINE Dulac !

[pirispirit]

thank you so good to have access as these were so hard to source back in the day

[BeMyCain]

Thank you for uploading this version, I really appreciate that!

(I accidentally slept, when we watched the movie during our film history lecture...)

I think the French impressionist movement lead to films with great visual narration in it, like La Glace à Trois Faces, or this one by Dulac. Though the story's assembling is conventional, the way the story is translated into specific film language is just loving. Finding new words for old stories, there's such a glance of childlike joy in it!