A COMPLETE GERMAINE DULAC RETROSPECTIVE AT CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE

A COMPLETE GERMAINE DULAC RETROSPECTIVE AT CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE

GERMAINE DULAC: CINEMATIC SENSATIONS AT THE HOUSE OF DREAMS presents nearly 30 films by Germaine Dulac, feminist, socialist and avant-garde pioneer of the 1920s. The two most famous, the impressionist LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET (1923), with its heroine with modern tastes confined to a bourgeois marriage, and LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (1927), the first surrealist film in history, conceived as an essay on the rhythm, have durably transformed the cinematographic landscape.

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