Vicenta

1920

No print is known to survive.

According to the brief plot summary offered by Lacassin, the heroine asks the lover from her youth in Basque Country to kill the prince who, in the dangerous Paris, has seduced her but has rejected her for a rich American woman.

Comoedia Illustré published in February 1920 a personal statement from Musidora on her concerns with the scenario and the film. The term photogénie does not occur in it, not even with regard to the beauty of the scenery surrounding the location, an attractive chateau “dusty with legend” that was situated in the Basque Pyrenees, where the story was largely set and the film was shot.

Musidora about her role in this film:

Vicenta is kind of a heroine. She loves only pleasure. She prefers the modern civilisation of our grand Paris over the healthy security of the Basque country. [...] But the day on which our way of understanding life will crush her heart, she will ask her Basque Country the simple act of devotion, namely revenge.

Sources:
Annette Förster, Women in the Silent Cinema. Histories of Fame and Fate (May 2019).

Francis Lacassin, Musidora. Anthologie du cinéma 59 (November 1970).

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