The Woman from Nowhere
About The Woman from Nowhere
A woman of fifty goes back to the house where she lived twenty years earlier. The daughter of the people who own it now is about to leave home, as she herself once did. The older woman tries to turn the girl from the same exit.
Cast & crew
More about The Woman from Nowhere
Louis Delluc wrote and directed La Femme de nulle part. Ève Francis plays the woman. Félix Juven produced. Alphonse Gibory and Georges Lucas photographed it. Jean Wiener wrote the music. The screenplay was one of three Delluc published in 1923 as Drames de cinéma. A circulating copy runs 61 minutes.
Themes
Background
Delluc published the script the next year with two others, treating the scenario as a text apart from the print.
Making
Francis, Delluc's wife, plays the returning woman. The film stays in one house and on the road away from it, rather than cutting to the life she lived in between.
Look
Alphonse Gibory and Georges Lucas photographed the house and the woman moving through rooms she used to know.
Music
Jean Wiener wrote the score.
Preservation
A print survives and has been copied to video.
Notes
- Roger Karl, Noémie Scize, André Daven, and Michel Duran are in the cast.
- The French title is La Femme de nulle part.
- Delluc was a critic as well as a director. This was one of the features he finished before his death in 1924.
Scenes
- The older woman recognizes, in the owners' daughter, the exit she herself took twenty years before.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
