Germaine Dulac

Antoinette Sabrier

Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn o…

Invitation to a Journey

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.…

The Madness of the Valiants

A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscre…

The Devil in the City

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is s…

Heart of an Actress

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set…

Gossette

In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to pr…

The Smiling Madame Beudet

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

Werther

The Death of the Sun

A young doctor is asked by her husband to choose between her profession and her family.…