GERMAINE DULAC: CINEMATIC SENSATIONS AT THE HOUSE OF DREAMS presents nearly 30 films by Germaine Dulac, feminist, socialist and avant-garde pioneer of the 1920s. The two most famous, the impressionist LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET (1923), with its heroine with modern tastes confined to a bourgeois marriage, and LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (1927), the first surrealist film in history, conceived as an essay on rhythm, have durably transformed the cinematographic landscape.

TRAILER: Germaine Dulac - Bande-annonce

*THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN* (*LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN*)

GME distributes Dulac’s LA CIGARETTE (1919), LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET (1923), as part of the anthology EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS, and her classic THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN, 1927), the first surrealist film and the winner of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival’s 2010 DVD award for Best Critical Research on a DVD. Also see GME’s French Films section for a comprehensive list of important cinematic work, including these films by Germaine Dulac.

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