Maurice Forster

A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

"Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially inquisitive film tells the tale of an independent, sexually liberated woman (Eve Francis) who is torn between her husband (Gabriel Gabrio) and her lover (Paul Guide). Controversial at the time of its release, Antoinette Sabrier finds Dulac using her bold sense of visual rhythm to achieve a complex portrait of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and a nuanced investigation into human intimacy, with her characters’ emotions expressed through then-innovative cinematic techniques such as slow motion and associative montage. " - Film Society of Lincoln Center

A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscreen gender roles and striving to achieve her idea of cinema as a “visual symphony,” emphasizing rhythmic editing over acting to achieve a “cinema of suggestion.”

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.

King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman.

1914년 프랑스 남부 프로방스, 주민들은 독일과의 전쟁 선포를 환영한다. 그중 질투심 많고 폭력적인 성향인 프랑수아 로린은 에디트와 결혼하지만, 그녀가 시인 장 디아즈와 불륜 관계라고 의심해 그녀를 로렌 주로 보낸다. 하지만 그녀는 그곳에서 독일군에게 강간당한다. 제1차 세계대전을 배경으로 한 비극적 드라마이자 몇몇 평론가는 반전 영화라고 평하기도 한다. 감독인 아벨 강스는 1920년대 프랑스 인상주의 영화 감독들 중 가장 중요한 인물이자 플래시백 등 무성영화의 전형적인 연출 스타일을 만들었다.

A serial in six episodes: 1) La seconde Marquise de Sombreuse; 2) Le Chateau maudit; 3) Folle; 4) L'Exilee; 5) La Danseuse inconnue; 6) Hallucination et realite. Set in modern day France in a chateau thought to be haunted since the Revolution, a Marquis and his daughter Irene (granddaughter of Marie Antoinette's lady companion) are preyed upon by Latin seductress, Lola, and her brother, Pedro. (Summary by Tami Williams, from the 2018 Il Cinema Ritrovato film program)

An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.

A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.