Dulac's earliest extant title, LA CIGARETTE concerns a liberated young woman and her older husband who believes she is having an affair--speaking to a real postwar crisis of masculinity in France. With its understated acting and location shooting, Dulac fuses realistic tendencies with impressionistic visual association, building tension between modernity/antiquity, life/death, and masculinity/femininity through cinematic-specific techniques, editing, and more.

Keywords: silent-film, woman-director,

Title: The Cigarette
Imdb rate: 7.0
Imdb votes: 70
Year: 1919
Language: N/A
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Director: Germaine Dulac
Writers: Jacques de Baroncelli
Actors:
Andrée Brabant
Gabriel Signoret
Jules Raucourt
Genevieve Williams

Awards: N/A