Short film
L’Aventurière
1910 · 16 min
A quiet, sunlit silent melodrama that drifts between staged intrigue and documentary glimpses of a rustic landscape.
- Directed by
- Louis Feuillade
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Renée Carl, Yvette Andréyor
- Overview
- Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her intention is to steal, with the aid of an accomplice, a cheque which represents the proceeds of a sale of cattle. Her plan is foiled however, thanks to the dedication of the ganadero’s young secretary. Entirely shot on location in the Camargue, this is one of the earliest of Feuillade’s surviving films clearly to demonstrate his predilection for systematically mixing documentary and fiction — though the idea seems already to have been evident in the films he shot in Britanny during the summer of 1909, for example La Légende des phares. Unfortunately none of these films has survived complete.
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Deception, betrayal, greed, loyalty
- Content
- Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Louis Feuillade
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Renée Carl, Yvette Andréyor
