La souriante Madame Beudet

The Smiling Madame Beudet

La sonriente Madame Beudet

1923 38 min. France Germaine Dulac

Camera Obscura

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]

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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