The Smiling Madame Beudet
1923 · 43 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 3,096 VOTES · DIR. Germaine Dulac
Overview
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Dialogue Timeline — 41 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:07 The Smiling Madame Beudet
00:01:12 The Smiling Madame Beudet - First Chapter -
00:01:43 Behind the peaceful facades, souls... passions...
00:02:19 Beudet- Lebas Inc. Mister Lebas...
00:02:31 ... and Mister Beudet, cloth merchant.
00:04:08 Dear Beudet, As arranged, I send you loge tickets for tonight,...
00:04:52 "What, you don't want to see and listen to Faust?"
00:07:17 An easy and often repeated joke, very dear to Mr. Beudet:The Suicide Parody.
00:11:42 "Come on now..."
00:12:18 "What an idiot, what a joke!..."
00:15:04 THE LOVERS' DEATH. We'll have beds filled with soft perfumes Couches as deep as graves And strange flowers on the shelves.
00:15:36 "Couches as deep as graves."
00:15:55 "And strange flowers on the shelves."
00:18:22 And always the same skyline...
00:19:18 But...
00:22:33 The next day. Painful awakening. Troubled sleep. Every night's dreams...
00:25:29 Remorse...
00:29:00 "Where did I put that receipt?"
00:30:04 "There you go, my friend, that's my wife!..."
00:31:08 "A puppet is fragile, a little bit like a woman..."
00:34:27 "Call Madame."
00:36:28 "You wanted to kill yourself like this?"
00:37:16 In the countryside.
00:37:43 - THE END -
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed41
Dialogue density1.0 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line00:37:43
Production Record
DirectorGermaine Dulac
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes3,096