The Cigarette

The Cigarette

Directed by Germaine Dulac • 1919 • France
Starring Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Raucourt

Germaine Dulac’s earliest extant film, 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. Through understated acting and location shooting, Dulac fuses realist tendencies with impressionistic visual association while exploring the tensions between modernity and antiquity, life and death, and masculinity and femininity.

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The Cigarette
  • The Cigarette

    Directed by Germaine Dulac • 1919 • France
    Starring Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Raucourt

    Germaine Dulac’s earliest extant film, 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 i...