"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
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| Release Date: | Apr 22, 1921 |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance |
| Production Company: | D.H. |
| Production Countries: | France |
| Casts: | Tania Daleyme, Yolande Hillé, Denise Lorys, Jean Toulout, Jean Tarride, Pierre Mareg, Lucien Glen, Louis Monfils |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $0 |
| Revenue: | 0 |