Dulac's first known title, LA CIGARETTE, is about a young woman who is free and her older husband, who thinks she is having an affair. This is a real crisis of masculinity in France after the war, and it's shown in this book. Dulac blends realistic acting and location shooting with impressionistic visual association to create tension between modernity and the past, life and death, and masculinity and femininity through cinematic techniques, editing, and more.
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Dulac's first known title, LA CIGARETTE, is about a young woman who is free and her older husband, who thinks she is having an affair. This is a real crisis of masculinity in France after the war, and it's shown in this book. Dulac blends realistic acting and location shooting with impressionistic visual association to create tension between modernity and the past, life and death, and masculinity and femininity through cinematic techniques, editing, and more.
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