Part 12: "Smiling Mrs. Buddy"
The famous feminist and experimentalist film Madame Buddy with a Smile is a French classic film directed by Sherman. Directed by Germaine DuIac. The film is only fifty-four minutes long, a black and white silent film. The story is about a provincial housewife who is very bored with life and is tied to the walls of a suffocating middle-class marriage. The storyline is not too complicated.
The most fascinating thing about this film is that it is composed of a series of elaborate dreams. Trapped, Mrs. Buddy, as a housewife, imagined a life that would enable her to escape from the current monotonous and unfree status quo. The film uses advanced stunt effects and editing techniques. Directed by Sherman. Drawing on some of the early avant-garde aesthetics, Durac used the boring and boring life of Mrs. Buddy living with her husband to set off the rich and vibrant life she imagined a woman had. And the heroine's spiritual and subconscious desire for liberation of the fantasy through the visual art form to express. It was only in this case that a smile appeared on her face. Her happiness was interrupted by the husband who appeared in her daydreams.
She decided to kill her husband in order to be liberated. Her attempt to murder her husband failed. This move is still misunderstood, and even her rebellion against her husband is not recognized by Mr. Buddy.
The film conveys to the audience a radical, subjective feminist idea. As a result, the film was able to participate in the first Women's Film Festival in New York in 1972.