Ecrits sur le cinéma 1919-1937

It reveals in filigree the evolution of a career and the passion of a woman who led a hard life right up until the end of an artistic and intellectual battle to free the cinema from other arts and thus reveal its essence and specific and unique expressive powers.

The deferential tone "disciple fascinated" recounting her meeting with Griffith master of the acerbic pen, radical and injunctive of an angry artist opposed to the reluctance of the public, stuck in a lazy conservatism; from a more moderate tone of weariness, to one of wisdom and understanding (period in which Germaine Dulac will be responsible for the News at Gaumont) to the enthusiastic tone of a rediscovered innocence (when Germaine Dulac turns to the expressive potential of documentary film , the News and scientific or educational films, which, according to her, conceal the truth of the 7th art), the filmmaker reveals the sometimes painful evolution of an artistic commitment that has seen the advent of the ‘Parlant’ and the ‘Couleur’..