In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a variety of effects and multiply the expressive means which translate the characters' visions and mental states. She also reversed class and gender roles, as she made the female character...
Eugenie, a young girl with a delicate temperament, runs away from the sordid cabaret run by her mother. Helped by a providential coincidence, she became a model in a fashion house on the Champs-Élysées.
A beautiful woman falls in love with a tenor giving her singing lessons. The evening when she is to appear in public for the first time, the tenor is called back to his country where his daughter has just drowned. He loses his voice and his mind. The young woman finds him one day, dying.
