
The Cigarette
LA CIGARETTE, Dulac's earliest extant title, is about a liberated young woman and her older husband, who suspects she is having an affair, and speaks to a real postwar masculinity crisis in France. Dulac fuses realistic tendencies with impressionistic visual association with its understated acting and location shooting, creating tension between modernity/antiquity, life/death, and masculinity/femininity through cinematic-specific techniques, editing, and more.
Released: 1919-10-09
Genre:
Drama