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Princesse Mandane

Country: United States, Language: English, 74 mins

  • Director: Germaine Dulac
  • Writer: Pierre Beno*t

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Though best known for avant-garde works like The Seashell and the Clergyman and The Smiling Madame Beudet, lesbian filmmaker Germaine Dulac also made a number of features, like the beguiling and little-shown Princess Mandane, a loose adaptation of Pierre Benoît’s novel Forgetfulness and her final commercial production. “In my film,” Dulac once said, “Benoît’s hero becomes a victim of the cinema. His obsession with all the glorious adventures on the screen forces him to abandon his peaceful life and roam the world. He becomes transported into a country full of wonders, a marvelous kingdom ruled by a fairy princess. A moral ends the story: After many adventures, my hero prefers to find happiness in simplicity.” Though with this fable comes a final twist, a turn of events that, it has been argued, constitute one of the most explicitly sapphic moments in Dulac’s cinema.


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Cast & Characters

Edmonde Guy;
Edmond van Duren;
Jacques Arnna;
Mona Goya;
Yvonne Legeay;
Paul Lorbert;
Valenti Colino;
Gerard de Wibo;
Christian Gerard;
Brindusa Grozavescu;
Sylvie Mai;
Edmond Van Daele