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| Directed by | Germaine Dulac |
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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.
- ^ Cheryl Hindrichs (2009). "Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac's "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting"". Feminist Studies.
- ^ a b Colin Marshall (18 November 2015). "The First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac's The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)". OpenCulture. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ "Themes and Variations". Toronto International Film Festival. 2016. Archived from the original on 18 November 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
... the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac ...
- ^ adamvasco (11 May 2012). "Friday Feature: First Feminist Film". MetaFilter. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ LH (10 September 2012). "La Souriante Madame Beudet [film review]". TimeOut London. Retrieved 17 November 2016.