1921
6.0 (2 votes)
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Romance
Production Companies
D.H.
The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy (La Belle dame sans merci)
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
Key Crew
Director: Germaine Dulac
Story: Irène Hillel-Erlanger
