More of the french stuff.
Title: La Souriante Madame Beudet (The smiling Madame Beudet)
Director: Germaine Dulac
Year: 1922
Runtime (My version): 38 mins. The book and imdb.com says 54 mins. I don't know what to say to that. My version told the story described in the book, and had all the elements described in the book as well, so maybe my version was a bit fast forwarded? Who knows?
Seen: Summer 2010
How i got this: Archive.org
Plot Outline: A lady is bored and frustrated in her marriage with her dominating and indifferent husband. She ends up trying to kill him, but fails even at that.
First impression: This is short - ergo will I be able to sit through it no matter how bad it might appear.
But on second thought: This was not for me, not even for me in 38 mins.
General comments: Supposedly this is a ground breaking movie, that deals with the issues of patriarchal society, and shows us the feminine side of such a society. I say that the messages this movie has to tell us have already been told in movies like "The Phantom Carriage" and perhaps "Way Down East" and "Within Our Gates".
Then if this movie is not groundbreaking in its message it has to be groundbreaking in some other way, or really good at telling us its story. And this movie fails to do or be so. The actors are doing an okay job, the music is plain and not something you notice. It's just a plain movie, nothing else.
Title: La Souriante Madame Beudet (The smiling Madame Beudet)
Director: Germaine Dulac
Year: 1922
Runtime (My version): 38 mins. The book and imdb.com says 54 mins. I don't know what to say to that. My version told the story described in the book, and had all the elements described in the book as well, so maybe my version was a bit fast forwarded? Who knows?
Seen: Summer 2010
How i got this: Archive.org
Plot Outline: A lady is bored and frustrated in her marriage with her dominating and indifferent husband. She ends up trying to kill him, but fails even at that.
First impression: This is short - ergo will I be able to sit through it no matter how bad it might appear.
But on second thought: This was not for me, not even for me in 38 mins.
General comments: Supposedly this is a ground breaking movie, that deals with the issues of patriarchal society, and shows us the feminine side of such a society. I say that the messages this movie has to tell us have already been told in movies like "The Phantom Carriage" and perhaps "Way Down East" and "Within Our Gates".
Then if this movie is not groundbreaking in its message it has to be groundbreaking in some other way, or really good at telling us its story. And this movie fails to do or be so. The actors are doing an okay job, the music is plain and not something you notice. It's just a plain movie, nothing else.
Music: It's there, and that's about it.
Pictures: Some creative use of pictures on top of pictures fading in and out, but nothing that spectacular.
Essentially this is: French, the sad and kinda boring way.
Why you should see this: Because you might learn to make out attempted murder when it comes around.
Why you shouldn't see this: There might just be something funnier to spend the evening doing...
Honorable mention: The way the husbands co-worker/business partner is bullyed by his wife.
Final rating: 50% This is not what i would call good, nevertheless it was the early days of film, and I don'r want to be too hard on it.
BTW: French... Lucky for them they have the Tour de'France...
Honorable mention: The way the husbands co-worker/business partner is bullyed by his wife.
Final rating: 50% This is not what i would call good, nevertheless it was the early days of film, and I don'r want to be too hard on it.
BTW: French... Lucky for them they have the Tour de'France...
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