Delphine Seyrig

If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.

Delphine Seyrig decided to work on a film project about Calamity Jane to reveal Jane’s sensibility and insight about life in those letters to her daughter. The reading of those letters permits a self-reflection about feminism and motherhood.

En los años 70, la actriz Delphine Seyrig y la directora Carole Roussopoulos, ambas feministas militantes, fueron las pioneras del videoactivismo en Francia. Documentaron las manifestaciones de las feministas francesas y utilizaron las nuevas tecnologías para contrarrestar la escasa representación de las mujeres en los medios públicos.

Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Maureen Fazendeiro’s film is a mysterious, multi-textured portrait of eclipse spectators in Portugal.

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

Made out of the last sequence of the film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Seven monitors (in sync) video installation, color, sound
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Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.

The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion photography, with a selection of images from throughout his career, including material from his films. Though Klein claims roots in areas as diverse as painting, street photography, the tabloids, and B movies, his fashion work has been known since the fifties and sixties and has been a constant in his career.

En el Transiberiano coinciden personajes muy diversos: Lady Windermere (Delphine Seyrig), una nerviosa maestra alemana (Irm Hermann), una joven francesa emancipada (Inés Sastre), unos cantantes de Broadway, la ostentosa reina Ziegfeld Fanny (Gillian Scalici)...

Two worlds are involved. The internal world, closed, virtually isolated, with just one tenuous, uncertain link with the other world - the telephone. The other, external world exists only to pass from one sealed-off place to another. Call each other? - you lose your voice before you get an answer: your head spins with non-existent voices. Telephone and answering machines are scheming devices. Just waiting in vain.

Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of death, Baroque tragedy etc.) The triumphal procession of the giant haystack as a symbol of human vanities becomes a military parade of abrupt, functional and arrogant gestures. The most diverse musical fragments and rhythms intone the montage of details in the staged triumphal procession, juxtaposed with documentary images, including marches, ticker-tape parades and military review.

One year after the death of Simone de Beauvoir (14 april 1986) Delphine Seyrig pays homage by visiting her grave. which she finds still covered with flowers and letters from all over the world.

Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are numbered.

Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.

A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia’s letters to the audience directly.

A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia’s letters to the audience directly.

This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul. Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten. The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.

Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him. Ulrike Ottinger, 1984

Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown. Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love. Seyrig is less inscrutable here than in her debut feature-film appearance Last Year in Marienbad (61), though the character is just as complex and difficult to please. Grain of Sand was released in France in 1983 as Le Grain de Sable.

After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.

FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his documents. Can she really challenge the strategic mind of a general still celebrating a famous victory?

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.

While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand.

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens her eyes to the fact that she is lonely, unable to find her place.

Victor es un reputado cineasta que decide llevar a la pantalla la pieza de Tchékov "Las tres hermanas". Para ello convoca a las tres actrices elegidas para preparar el papel en una ciudad cerca del lago Léman. Ellas son la francesa Julie, que es su ex mujer y a la que todavía ama, la italiana Cécilia y Esther, la más joven de todas y que pronto comienza a exasperar a Julie.

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.

Documentary about French film actress and director Delphine Seyrig featuring an interview filmed in 1977.

In two parts, it documents the litigation of Brigitte Fontaine, Monique Piton, Mireille and Erin Pizzey with Éditions de femmes in 1976 and those of Catherine Leguay and Brigitte Fontaine in 1977.

Tras las revueltas del 68, Michele decirse irse a Londres. Desde allí mantiene el contacto con su madre y su familia a través del correo postal. El personaje nos va presentando, así, al resto del reparto, mientras se debate entre una mujer tradicional, aterrorizada ante los cambios -la madre-, y una joven inquieta, preparada para todo lo que se le ponga por delante -la novia-.

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.

La vida de Jeanne Dielman, una joven viuda con un hijo, sigue un orden inmutable: mientras el muchacho está en la escuela, ella se ocupa de las tareas domésticas por la mañana y ejerce la prostitución por la tarde.

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

Recreación de la India de los años 30 a través de la historia de Anne-Marie, la esposa del vice-cónsul francés en el país. Harta del tedio cotidiano en que se ha convertido su vida, la mujer inicia una serie de aventuras amorosas que su marido conoce, pero pretende ignorar.

Un asesino a sueldo que liquida a sus víctimas sin el menor remordimiento entra en el tranquilo mundo de una mujer y se enamora, con trágicas consecuencias.

The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.

Úrsula, una joven niñera alemana, empieza a trabajar para una encantadora y apacible familia que vive en una ciudad costera. Al instante, se enamora de Jean Claude, el hijo mayor, un muchacho acomplejado porque tiene una mancha en la cara. Poco tiempo después de su llegada, los hijos de la familia empiezan a morir accidentalmente.

Un agente secreto británico (Michael Caine), amenazado de muerte, tendrá que actuar por su cuenta cuando unos traficantes de armas sin escrúpulos secuestran a su hijo y piden un desorbitado rescate en diamantes.

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.

Images from “La nuit des femmes”, an evening in support of the three Portuguese writers, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, who, for having published in 1972 the “Novas Cartas Portuguesas”, a collective work bringing together texts denouncing the alienating and patriarchal Portuguese society, were brought to justice and risked 2 to 5 years in prison for insulting good morals.

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.

Nora Helmer, casada y con cuatro hijos pequeños, parece una mujer feliz. Aunque su marido es muy autoritario y dominante, el carácter alegre y algo frívolo de Nora hace soportable la situación. Pero, años atrás, Nora, sin conocimiento de su marido, contrajo una deuda que intenta liquidar sustrayendo pequeñas sumas al presupuesto familiar. Sin embargo, como su marido es muy estricto en el control de los gastos, ha ido retrasando los pagos, ha pedido incluso dinero a algunos conocidos, pero llega un momento en el que su situación es desesperada.

La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.

On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.

Don Rafael Costa, embajador de Miranda, y el matrimonio Thévenot están invitados a cenar en casa del matrimonio Sénechal, pero a causa de un malentendido tienen que ir a un restaurante. Cuando llegan, no pueden cenar porque el dueño del lugar ha muerto. A partir de ese momento, las reuniones de este selecto grupo de burgueses se verán siempre interrumpidas por las circunstancias más extrañas, algunas reales y otras fruto de su imaginación.

Ostende, Bélgica. En un decadente hotel situado frente a la costa, Stefan y Valerie, una pareja de recién casados, conocen a la misteriosa condesa Báthory y a Ilona, su secretaria.

French television adaptation of Moliere's play.

A look behind the scenes of Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin (1971).

En su lecho de muerte, la Reina hace prometer al Rey que no volverá a casarse hasta que no encuentre a una mujer que la supere en bondad y belleza. Algunos años después, el Rey encuentra a la perfecta sustituta de su esposa: su propia hija. El Hada de las Lilas, la madrina de la joven princesa, le aconseja que pida a su padre, como regalo, unos vestidos maravillosos, aparentemente imposibles de confeccionar. Pero como el Rey consigue los vestidos, la princesa le pide que le regale una capa hecha con la piel del asno banquero, principal fuente de riqueza del Reino.

Dos trotamundos franceses que, desde las afueras de París, deciden ir de peregrinaje a Santiago de Compostela, conocen numerosos personajes y viven situaciones estrechamente vinculadas a las creencias religiosas

Mister Freedom es un superhéroe americano que, en nombre de Dios y de su país, roba, viola y mata a cualquiera que esté en desacuerdo con él. Cuando se entera de que Francia corre el peligro de caer en manos de los comunistas, se va allí para impedirlo.

Mexican feature film

Continúa el ciclo de Antoine Doinel tras "Los cuatrocientos golpes" y "L'amour à vingt ans". El protagonista (Jean-Pierre Léaud), tras ser expulsado del ejército por insubordinación, visita a su antigua novia, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). El padre de Christine encuentra un trabajo temporal para Antoine como vigilante nocturno de un hotel. Sin embargo, por culpa de un detective privado, pierde el empleo el primer día. Como compensación, el detective le ofrece un trabajo en su agencia. Al principio Antoine se encarga de asuntos menores hasta que le encomiendan la misión de averiguar por qué todas las empleadas de la zapatería del señor Georges Tabard (Michel Lonsdale) lo odian. En la zapatería, Antoine conocerá a Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig), la esposa del propietario.

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.

Una joven estudiante de Oxford se ve envuelta en un accidente como consecuencia del cual muere su novio. Desesperada, sólo encontrará consuelo en un sereno y cálido profesor universitario.

Klein obtuvo el premio Jean Vigo con Polly Maggoo, su primer largometraje de ficción. Utilizando la animación, los números musicales y la foto fija, realiza una crónica ácida de la realidad, que sigue siendo válida en la actualidad. Se trata de una sátira elegante del mundo de la moda a través del retrato glamouroso y grotesco de una joven originaria de Brooklyn, exitosa modelo en París, que se convierte en el tema central del programa de televisión ¿Quién es usted?.

TV movie of a play by Ivan Turgenev

An adaptation of the Beckett play

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

Delphine Seyrig is Catherine Miller, an internationally renowned pianist. Married and mother of a little boy, she leads a hectic life. Following a recital, she accepts a dinner with the music critic Gilles Bollème. This seemingly innocuous encounter gradually confronts Catherine with her own demons.

Tras la muerte de su marido, Helène, dueña de un negocio de antigüedades, cuida de su hijo adoptivo Bernard, un joven traumatizado por el recuerdo de Muriel, una mujer torturada durante la Guerra de Argelia. Hélène está buscando a Alphonse, su amor de juventud, al que no ve desde hace veinte años. Sin embargo, cuando, por fin, lo encuentra, ambos descubren que ya no tienen nada en común.

En un barroco hotel, un extraño, X, intenta persuadir a una mujer casada, A, de que abandone a su marido, M, y se fugue con él. Se basa en una promesa que ella le hizo cuando se conocieron el año anterior, en Marienbad, pero la mujer parece no recordar aquel encuentro.

Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.