The Cigarette
LA CIGARETTE, Dulac's first existing title, is about a liberated young lady and her older husband, who suspects she is having an affair. It speaks to a true postwar crisis of manhood in France at the time of its publication. Due to its understated acting and location shooting, Dulac fuses realistic tendencies with impressionistic visual association, creating tension between modernity and antiquity, life and death, and masculinity and femininity through the use of cinematic-specific techniques such as editing and other elements.
Released: 1919-10-09
Genre:
Drama