Lily of Life
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70% Critic Match

Lily of Life

7.0 / 10 1920 1h 20mNR French
Fantasy

Storyline

Loie Fuller, in her 1920 feature-length film Le Lys de la vie, […] explored the new technique for poetic ends, creating fleeting, dreamlike images that "freed" the medium from "illusionism" and imbued it with fantasy.

Cast & Crew

MM

Margery Meadows

Corona

Lead
FH

Flora Hart

Mora

René Clair

René Clair

JL

Jean-Paul Le Tarare

Damia

Damia

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Gab Sorère's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Lily of Life is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker