Monday, 19 January 2015

A bullet in a gun

La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923)

Directed by Germaine Dulac this film stars Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquilliere and Jean d'Yd. A woman trapped in a loveless marriage dreams of being free of her husband.

This is a fairly short film and as such there is not a huge amount of plot here so this is a pretty simple story. I did enjoy the ending but really the film is not long enough to fully explore the idea of loveless marriages. What is good here is the use of special effects to show the protagonists desires and dreams which works really well.


4/5

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