
A woman appears at the house where she used to live a long time ago. The new inhabitants, a married couple with a toddler, welcome her to stay for the night.


Louis Delluc’s The Woman from Nowhere is less a story than a fever you catch in the lobby, an ozone tang that clings to coat linings long after the houselights rise. Shot on rain-smeared orthochromatic stock that turns skin into marble and shadows into inkwells, the film premiered in October 1922 at the Studio des Ur...


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Louis Delluc

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" Louis Delluc’s The Woman from Nowhere is less a story than a fever you catch in the lobby, an ozone tang that clings to coat linings long after the houselights rise. Shot on rain-smeared orthochromatic stock that turns skin into marble and shadows into inkwells, the film premiered in October 1922 at the Studio des Ursulines, then vanished into bureaucratic bonfires—partly because distributors feared its refusal to moralise, partly because the state, still licking Verdun wounds, disliked art th..."
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Louis Delluc
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