With: Georgette Leblanc (Claire Lescot), Jaque Catelain (Einar Norsen), Léonid Walter de Malte (Waldimir Kranine), Fred Kellerman (Frank Mahler), Philippe Hériat (Djorah de Nopur), Marcelle Pradot (the simpleton)
Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Production co: Cinégraphic
Screenplay:  Pierre MacOrlan, Georgette Leblanc
Photography: Georges Specht
REVIEWS
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“Though active into the 1970s Marcel L’Herbier is best remembered as part of the first wave of French experimental filmmakers in the 1920s.  [Newly restored], his most ambitious and perhaps greatest film , L’Inhumaine, centers on a celebrated diva whose romantic whims drive a young admirer to suicidal despair.  A platform for opera star Georgette Leblanc and for the cinema-specific techniques championed by L’Herbier and his fellow cineastes, L’Inhumaine is most of all a showcase for ‘20s French modernism.  The spectacular set design, costuming, and mise en scène were created by a who’s who of artists and designers, including Robert Mallet-Stevens, Fernand Léger, René Lalique, Paul Poiret, and soon-to-be directors Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara.  These bizarrely artificial elements frame a melodrama that shifts into a quasi science-fiction paean to technology and humanity.”

— Patrick Friel, Film Comment

Restoration by Lobster Films
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Palmerston North
Monday, 9 July, 6:00pm

Wellington
Monday, 23 July, 6:15pm

Hamilton
Monday, 30 July, 8:00pm
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Auckland
Monday, 13 August, 6:30pm
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