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Retrospective

Surrealistische Stummfilme von Germaine Dulac

FromGermaine Dulac

WithGermaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillère, Jean D’Yd, Alexandre Allin, Génica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille

Year1923

Duration76min.

LanguageFrench

Two of the best-known films by Germaine Dulac (1882-1942), a pioneer - not only - of surrealist cinema, who propagated a modern, emancipated femininity in her works. With bitter irony, LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET dissects the bourgeois married life of a woman in the provinces who imagines herself in a richly illustrated fantasy world in order to escape her unedifying everyday life with her husband: A kind of modern Bovary. Even before Buñuel and Dalí's UN CHIEN ANDALOU, she ‘invented’ surrealist cinema in LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN by merging church criticism and Freudian dream symbolism: a young priest and an officer vie for the favour of a beautiful woman. She decides in favour of the former - but he has his own fears to contend with.
(Florian Widegger)

With live musical accompaniment by Gerhard Gruber
Free admission for FAA Club members with companion