The Inhuman Woman

Marcel L'Herbier, Cinégraphic, 1924. Singer Claire Lescot (Georgette Leblanc) refuses a suitor; he fakes suicide; a scientist (Jaque Catelain) offers to restore her with a machine. Robert Mallet-Stevens built the villa; Fernand Léger did the laboratory; Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara worked the décors. CNC restorations stress that guest list. The plot is society nonsense. The rooms are the reason to run it: Art Deco as a set you can walk through, then a bolt of electricity.