|
Altered template type. Add: date, journal. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:Films about suicide | #UCB_Category 434/460
|
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) by Germaine Dulac.webm: HR
|
||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
| budget = |
| budget = |
||
}} |
}} |
||
[[File: |
[[File:The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) by Germaine Dulac.webm|thumb|thumbtime=10|upright=1.5|''La Souriante Madame Beudet'']] |
||
'''''La Souriante Madame Beudet''''' ('''''The Smiling Madame Beudet''''') is a [[short film|short]] French [[French impressionist cinema|impressionist]] [[silent film]] made in 1923,<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://works.bepress.com/cheryl_hindrichs/4/ |title=Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac's "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting" |author=Cheryl Hindrichs |journal=Feminist Studies |year=2009}}</ref><ref name=openculture/> directed by pioneering [[avant-garde cinema]] director [[Germaine Dulac]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Toronto International Film Festival |url=http://www.tiff.net/events/themes-and-variations |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161118164255/https://www.tiff.net/events/themes-and-variations |archive-date= 18 November 2016 |quote=... the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac ... |title=Themes and Variations |year=2016 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref> It stars [[Germaine Dermoz]] as Madame Beudet and [[Alexandre Arquillière]] as Monsieur Beudet. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "[[feminist]]" films.<ref name=openculture>{{cite web |url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/behold-the-first-feminist-film-germaine-dulacs-the-smiling-madame-beudet-1922.html |title=The First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac's ''The Smiling Madame Beudet'' (1922) |author=Colin Marshall |website=OpenCulture |date=18 November 2015 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metafilter.com/115837/Friday-Feature-First-Feminist-Film |website=MetaFilter |author=adamvasco |date=11 May 2012 |accessdate=17 November 2016 |title=Friday Feature: First Feminist Film}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/la-souriante-madame-beudet |website=TimeOut London |title=La Souriante Madame Beudet [film review] |author=LH |date=10 September 2012 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref> It tells the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. |
'''''La Souriante Madame Beudet''''' ('''''The Smiling Madame Beudet''''') is a [[short film|short]] French [[French impressionist cinema|impressionist]] [[silent film]] made in 1923,<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://works.bepress.com/cheryl_hindrichs/4/ |title=Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac's "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting" |author=Cheryl Hindrichs |journal=Feminist Studies |year=2009}}</ref><ref name=openculture/> directed by pioneering [[avant-garde cinema]] director [[Germaine Dulac]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Toronto International Film Festival |url=http://www.tiff.net/events/themes-and-variations |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161118164255/https://www.tiff.net/events/themes-and-variations |archive-date= 18 November 2016 |quote=... the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac ... |title=Themes and Variations |year=2016 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref> It stars [[Germaine Dermoz]] as Madame Beudet and [[Alexandre Arquillière]] as Monsieur Beudet. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "[[feminist]]" films.<ref name=openculture>{{cite web |url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/behold-the-first-feminist-film-germaine-dulacs-the-smiling-madame-beudet-1922.html |title=The First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac's ''The Smiling Madame Beudet'' (1922) |author=Colin Marshall |website=OpenCulture |date=18 November 2015 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metafilter.com/115837/Friday-Feature-First-Feminist-Film |website=MetaFilter |author=adamvasco |date=11 May 2012 |accessdate=17 November 2016 |title=Friday Feature: First Feminist Film}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/la-souriante-madame-beudet |website=TimeOut London |title=La Souriante Madame Beudet [film review] |author=LH |date=10 September 2012 |accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref> It tells the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. |
||
| La Souriante Madame Beudet | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Germaine Dulac |
| Written by |
|
| Produced by |
|
| Starring |
|
| Cinematography |
|
Release date |
|
Running time | 38 mins. |
| Country | France |
| Languages | Silent film French intertitles |
La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) is a short French impressionist silent film made in 1923,[1][2] directed by pioneering avant-garde cinema director Germaine Dulac.[3] It stars Germaine Dermoz as Madame Beudet and Alexandre Arquillière as Monsieur Beudet. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "feminist" films.[2][4][5] It tells the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Monsieur Beudet frequently puts an empty revolver to his head and threatens to shoot himself as a practical joke or to emphasize his frustration. He does this so often that it no longer surprises his wife or friends. One night, Monsieur Beudet gets some theater tickets, but his wife refuses to go with him. While he is gone, Madame Beudet spends some time reflecting on her marriage to a slovenly, unromantic man who does things like lock the lid of her piano when he's upset with her; she puts a bullet into her husband's revolver so he will accidentally kill himself the next time he repeats his joke.
After a sleepless night, Madame Beudet comes to feel remorse for the trap she has set. Unfortunately, that day Monsieur Beudet's office is never unoccupied long enough for her to remove the bullet from the revolver. Monsieur Beudet calls for his wife to ask her about some large household expenses. He gets worked up and, thinking the revolver is empty like it usually is, he points it at himself and then turns it on his wife. He shoots, but the bullet misses Madame Beudet. Monsieur Beudet wrongly surmises that his wife was trying to commit suicide. He embraces her and says "How could I live without you?"
... the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac ...
 | This article about a short silent drama film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article related to a French film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
