F 1922, D Germaine Dulac, SC André Obey, based on a stage play by Denys Amiel and André Obey, C Maurice Forster, Paul Parguel, P Charles Delac, Marcel Vandal (Film d’art), Cast Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillère, Jean d’Yd, Madeleine Guitty, Yvette Grisier, Raoul Paoli, Armand Thirard, Print b/w, 35mm, 38 min, silent, French and German INT, EYE Film Instituut Nederland

Humdrum married life in the provinces. Monotonous days; empty time that the sensitive wife spends in the house, or with friends and pleasures as stupefying as the husband himself. She takes little escapes into society magazines and the fantasies they inspire, yearns for the death of the house tyrant, stages it – and fails. Resignation in the grey streets of the small town: the theatre of marriage continues. Due to this film’s feminist reception, it became one of Dulac’s best-known and most widely-screened works. (Heide Schlüpmann, Germaine Dulac. Der Film ist ein weit auf das Leben geöffnetes Auge, 2017)