Movies by Louis Monfils
L'énigme du Mont Agel
One night, someone came looking for Mr. Stevens to take care of an urgent matter … Claude Stevens (played by Claude Machin), who ignored yet the urgent matters, slept an innocent sleep. After returning home, he discovered that Claude has disappeared. And the mysterious kidnapper entrusted an ape to looks after Claude.
The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy
"Taking its title from John Keats’s early 19th-century poem, this highly personal melodrama finds Dulac interrogating the archetype of the femme fatale. La belle dame sans merci follows a famous actress who was once seduced and abandoned by a rich man and subsequently resolved to become a “merciless woman,” forever scheming to hurt others (men in particular) in a ruthless yet captivating manner. Dulac challenges the Romantic archetype embodied in Keats’s poem by way of symbolist mise en scène, self-reflexive narration, and her typically asso...