{"id":10753,"date":"2014-02-12T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2014-02-12T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:13:59","slug":"the-seashell-and-the-clergyman-1928-surrealist-film-by-germaine-dulac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/12\/the-seashell-and-the-clergyman-1928-surrealist-film-by-germaine-dulac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seashell and the Clergyman: 1928 Surrealist Film by Germaine Dulac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dulac2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dulac2\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dulac2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A clergyman goes insane with lust for the wife of a general in this ravishingly beautiful silent film by one of the greatest surrealist filmmakers of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germaine_Dulac\">Germaine Dulac<\/a>. She captures states of mind on film like no one I&#8217;ve ever seen. If you are looking for magic in cinema, you are going to find it here. This is a film about magic, desire, obsession, male\/female power, love, faith, mysticism, and reality. Her story is hypnotic and her special effects are superb.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2012\/01\/31\/celles-qui-sen-font-1928-short-film-by-germaine-dulac\/\">another of her films<\/a> that I wrote about on this site.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYAo-dwZSrs?rel=0\" height=\"469\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dulac.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dulac\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dulac.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clergyman goes insane with lust for the wife of a general in this ravishingly beautiful silent film by one of the greatest surrealist filmmakers of all time, Germaine Dulac. She captures states of mind on film like no one I&#8217;ve ever seen. If you are looking for magic in cinema, you are going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1476,1458,1639,831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1920s","category-short-films","category-silent-film-2","category-surrealism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}