The 5-minute film issued as La Fable de Psyché (a 1909 film by Gaston Velle) on DVD by Pathé is not in fact that but this film on the same subject directed by Maurice Le Forestier (Daniel Riche, a novelist and playwright, wrote the scenario) . The Velle film was originally about fifteen minutes long and this film ran for over half an hour so these are really just fragments and, because Pathé misidentified the film, they have ended up using entirely random fragments with completely inappropriate intertitles added. The film starred Stacia Napierkowska as Psyché, Marie-Louise Derval as Vénus (with helmet and horn) and Andrée Pascal as Cupidon (podgy legs and bow).. For what it is worth the various scenes seem to be 1) the marriage of Psyché's two sisters 2) two encounters between Psyché and Vénus 4) her introduction to the palace by Cupidon, veiled because she is not allowed to see him, and 5) a scene inside the palace. Really not much sense at all as it stands. Bravo Pathé! A complete mess!
Review of The Marriage of Psyche and Cupid
