La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923)
- Directed by
- Germaine Dulac
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 42 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 94 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman is stuck in a cold and unhappy marriage with a boring and dismissive husband. The film follows her quiet inner life and her desperate daydreams of escape.
melancholicunsettlingslow-burndreamlikeintimatetensevisually lushintrospectivebleak
What happens
La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) is a short French impressionist silent film made in 1923, directed by pioneering avant-garde cinema director Germaine Dulac. It stars Germaine Dermoz as Madame Beudet and Alexandre Arquillière as Monsieur Beudet. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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