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The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy

★ 6.0 (2 votes) | 1921 | 1h 20m
DramaRomance
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

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date April 22, 1921
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production D.H.

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