All this summer, during the Passages summer break, we wanted to introduce you to our Another History podcast. Six episodes devoted to the life of Alice Guy, the first female director in history. An incredible life that tells the story of the birth of cinema.
In this sixth and last episode, we are in 1920. Deceived, divorced, ruined, Alice leaves the United States and arrives in Paris with her two children under her arm. Europe is entering the Roaring Twenties. The end of the war instilled at the time a taste for movement, speed, jazz. Everything is accelerating and changing at an insane pace.
Alice has been completely forgotten. She knocks on the doors of French cinema to find a job. They all close. And when she is offered the possibility of directing studios, it is on condition that she invests significant sums. But she has nothing left …
Does fame come at a price?
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