LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET

by Germaine DULAC

1922 / 16 mm or DVD / n&b / sil / 38' 15

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2008 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

«From a story by Guy de Maupassant, the piece concerns the titular character (portrayed by Germaine Dermoz), the dissatisfied bourgeois housewife of a thoughtless, self-centered shopkeeper. Decades of marital submission have reduced Mme. Beudet to irrepressible melancholia and ennui, and have rendered her an emotional prisoner to her world and herself. Her rich fantasy world, however, consists of breezy, idyllic and lyrical interludes with a host of young, handsome paramours. Mme. Beudet also fantasizes about laying waste to her husband - but every such hopeful wish fizzles out as she resurfaces in the reality of the everyday. Throughout the picture, Dulac uses such devices as slow motion, distortions, and superimposed images to paint Beudet's various emotional states onscreen.»
Nathan Southern, Rovi

2 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	DVD (PAL)
speed	25 ips
screen	4/3 (vidéo)
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	130,00 €

distribution format	16 mm 1 reel (352 meters)
speed	18 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	sil
rental fee	130,00 €

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date	place	city	country	agenda

20/06/2012	Fundación Marcelino Botín	Santander	ESPAGNE	détails
01/08/2012	Fundación Marcelino Botín	Santander	ESPAGNE	détails

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