The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy (movie)
La Belle dame sans merci- User score: 6
- Production country: France
- Producer: Germaine Dulac
- Production companies: D.H.
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Release date: 4/22/1921
- Run time: 80 min.
Movie description
"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
