The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy

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

Cast

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Tania Daleyme

Lola de Sandoval

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Yolande Hillé

Irène

Denise Lorys

Comtesse d'Amaury

Jean Toulout

Comte Guy d'Amaury

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Jean Tarride

Hubert d'Amaury

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Pierre Mareg

Marquis de Saint-Érasme

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Lucien Glen

Lucien

Louis Monfils