The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy
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
Director: Germaine Dulac
Cast
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
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