
Forced into a loveless marriage by her mother, Joan Coolidge, a beautiful American girl, finds her husband a brute. She runs away to Paris and studies dancing and becomes The Rage of Paris.


Paris at dawn, 1921: a city still picking shrapnel out of its haunches, discovers a new wound—Joan Coolidge—who pirouettes through the fog like a stiletto searching for a heart. The film opens not with title cards but with a close-up of a wedding veil caught on a nail; the tear is louder than any organ chord. Direct...

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" Paris at dawn, 1921: a city still picking shrapnel out of its haunches, discovers a new wound—Joan Coolidge—who pirouettes through the fog like a stiletto searching for a heart. The film opens not with title cards but with a close-up of a wedding veil caught on a nail; the tear is louder than any organ chord. Director Lucien Hubbard weaponises that rip: it foretells the entire narrative, a silk flag surrendering to the gale of self-sovereignty. Joan, incarnated by the unfairly forgotten Elino..."
Lucien Hubbard, Du Vernet Rabell, Douglas Z. Doty
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