La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet)

La Souriante Madame
Beudet
/ The
Smiling Madame Beudet is considered Germaine Dulac's impressionist masterpiece.
Based on an avant-garde play of the same title by music lover and sports
essayist André Obey, this film presents the inner life of a young modern woman
hoping to escape an oppressive marriage. Her feminine perspectives and her
desire to explore modern life are communicated through gesture, movement,
rhythm, and innovative technical effects. Dulac also employs references to
Baudelaire, Debussy, and the pre-Raphaelite school that invite us to compare
the expressive capacity of this new medium to that of the other arts.
Tami Williams

Maud Nelissen & Finn Möricke (music)
Maud Nelissen: composition, piano; Finn Möricke: violin

Režija: Germaine Dulac; po drami: André Obey, Denys Amiel; scenarij: André
Obey; fotografija: A. Marrin; igrajo: Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillière,
Jean d'Yd, Madeleine Guitty, Yvette Grisier, Raoul Paoli, Thirard; produkcija:
Charles Delac, Marcel Vandal (Film
d'Art)

Thanks
to: Marleen Labijt, Mark-Paul Meyer (Nederlands
Filmmuseum, Amsterdam), A.W.P. Agotha, Sandra Peršak (Royal
Netherlands Embassy, Ljubljana), Staš Ravter (Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana), Bojan Bajšič, Andrej Goričar,
Koen van Daele (Otok, Ljubljana-Izola), Tami
Williams, Il Cinema Ritrovato
& Cineteca Bologna
Special
thanks to: Jean-Michel Mareau

Organisation:
City of Women
In
collaboration with: Cankarjev dom
With
the support of: Royal Netherlands Embassy Ljubljana (Focus 06)