The Seashell and the Clergyman

Name: The Seashell and the Clergyman
Director: Germaine Dulac
Released: 1928
Duration: 40 min

1928
40 min (approx.)
35mm, black and white, silent

A still from The Seashell and the Clergyman.

A clergyman chases a general's wife through a ballroom, a confessional and a run of breaking glass, and at one point tears open her blouse to find a seashell. Antonin Artaud wrote the scenario, and Surrealists broke up its Paris premiere.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Mike Kesidis

Also by Germaine Dulac

The Smiling Madame Beudet1923
Theme and Variations1928