The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy

    The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy
    1921

    Synopsis

    "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

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    Cast

    • Tania DaleymeLola de Sandoval
    • Yolande HilléIrène
    • Denise LorysComtesse d'Amaury
    • Jean TouloutComte Guy d'Amaury
    • Jean TarrideHubert d'Amaury
    • Pierre MaregMarquis de Saint-Érasme
    • Lucien GlenLucien
    • Louis Monfils

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