Name: Le désespoir de Pétronille
Genre: Short
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Sarah Duhamel, Lucien Bataille

When her fiance sends a note saying he has to go away, Sarah Duhamel falls into a funk and tries to kill herself.

Screen comics have been trying to kill themselves at least since Max Linder in LE PENDU in 1906. Although the impulse has moderated since the start of the talkie era, unsuccessful suicides have made notable gags in many comedies. In this one, Mlle Duhamel's broad acting makes the efforts funny, as various methods fail through the inscrutable workings of the gag writers.

Miss Duhamel had been making movies since 1911, and when the Pathe director Romeo Bosetti moved to Lux, she went with him, taking a new screen name; her character of Rosalie was owned by the studio.

The short form refers to creative works characterized by their brevity and concise storytelling. Unlike full-length feature films, short films have a running time of less than 45 minutes, while TV shorts have a running time of less than 22 minutes.

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