The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy (1921)
"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
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Tania Daleyme as Lola de Sandoval |
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Yolande Hillé as Irène |
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Denise Lorys as Comtesse d'Amaury |
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Jean Toulout as Comte Guy d'Amaury |
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Jean Tarride as Hubert d'Amaury |
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Pierre Mareg as Marquis de Saint-Érasme |
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Lucien Glen as Lucien |
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Louis Monfils as |
| Directing | Germaine Dulac | Director |
| Crew | Jacques Oliver | Cinematography |
| Writing | Irène Hillel-Erlanger | Story |
| Writing | Germaine Dulac | Adaptation |
