L’inhumaine
This program is part of the screening series Art Deco in the Movies: A Centennial Celebration, presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.
L’inhumaine (1924)
With so many innovations remaking the worlds of art and design in the 1920s, French director Marcel L'Herbier wasn’t about to let cinema — that most modern of expressive forms — get left behind. Specifically produced to raise excitement about these developments in the run up to the 1925 Paris expo, L’inhumaine features the contributions of leading artists in their respective fields including painter Fernand Léger, architect Robert Mallet-Stevens and fashion designer Paul Poiret. Their dizzying designs illuminate L’Herbier’s fantastical story of a secret society in thrall to a mysterious diva plotting to transform the world through mysticism and futuristic technology.
DCP, b&w, with tinting, silent with musical accompaniment, intertitles in French with English subtitles, 135 min. Director: Marcel L'Herbier. Screenwriters: Marcel L'Herbier, Georgette Leblanc, Pierre Mac Orlan. With: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Georgette Leblanc.
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