Released:
1921-04-22

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

Runtime:
1h 20min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Tania Daleyme
  as
  Lola de Sandoval
• 
  Yolande Hillé
  as
  Irène
• 
  Denise Lorys
  as
  Comtesse d'Amaury
• 
  Jean Toulout
  as
  Comte Guy d'Amaury
• 
  Jean Tarride
  as
  Hubert d'Amaury