"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
Germaine Dulac
Director
Tania Daleyme
Lola de Sandoval
Yolande Hillé
Irène
Denise Lorys
Comtesse d'Amaury
Jean Toulout
Comte Guy d'Amaury
Jean Tarride
Hubert d'Amaury
Pierre Mareg
Marquis de Saint-Érasme
Lucien Glen
Lucien
Louis Monfils
My Brilliant Career61%
Ma première fois65%
Mon roi71%
Hollywood Dirt63%
The Safety of Objects65%
Sous emprise60%
TalhotBlond63%
Noce blanche65%
Not Easily Broken63%
A Perfect Ending62%
Luna63%
Chaos63%
Starving in Suburbia65%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
Strange Weather58%
Iron Jawed Angels67%
Mal de pierres65%
Nine Lives61%
Les liaisons dangereuses58%
Plus que jamais64%
