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.

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.

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.

Легендарный фотограф Уильям Кляйн разработал эту увлекательную книгу о модной фотографии с подборкой изображений на протяжении всей своей карьеры, в том числе материалов из своих фильмов. Хотя Кляйн претендует на корни в таких разных областях, как живопись, уличная фотография, таблоиды и фильмы "Би", его модные работы известны с пятидесятых и шестидесятых годов и были неизменными в его карьере.

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

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.

After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.

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.

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.

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.

Жанна Дильман — вдова и мать-одиночка, живущая в квартире, адрес которой вынесен в название фильма. В фильме показаны три последовательных дня её жизни. Она застилает кровать, собирает сына-подростка в школу, готовит еду, идёт в магазин за покупками, пьёт кофе, моет посуду, вечером ужинает с сыном. Днём она занимается проституцией — принимает дома клиентов и тем обеспечивает себя и сына. На секс с клиентом отводится время, которое требуется картошке, чтобы свариться. На второй день в установленном порядке начинаются сбои...

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

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

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence…

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

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.

The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.

Главный герой — секретный агент британской разведки, смерти которого желают и друзья, и враги. Кейн реализует план страшной мести, когда безжалостные бандиты похищают его маленького сына и требуют за мальчика гигантский выкуп, который должен быть выплачен неограненными алмазами.

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.

Нора пытается спасти мужа от разорения и защитить свой дом. Все ее попытки бесплодны, более того — по мнению мужа, ее поступок равнозначен преступлению. В финале Нора оставляет мужа и детей и уходит из дома, который стал ей неродным.

Фильм, действие которого происходит во Франции в начале 60-х годов, основан на реальных событиях. Картина воспроизводит историю покушения на жизнь президента Франции Шарля де Голля, предпринятую ультраправой террористической организации ОАС. Исполнителем воли преступников стал опытный наемный убийца по кличке Шакал, согласившийся выполнить эту работу на полмиллиона долларов.

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.

Насмешливая, сюрреалистическая зарисовка никчемной жизни буржуа. Непредвиденные обстоятельства с завидным постоянством препятствуют вожделению героев отобедать. Сон и явь сплетаются в калейдоскоп бредовых событий.

Остенде, Бельгия. В декадентском приморском отеле Стефан и Валери, молодожены, знакомятся с таинственной графиней Батори и Илоной, ее секретарем.

French television adaptation of Moliere's play.

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

В прелестной сказочной стране жили-были удачливый красавец Король и добродетельная Королева. Роскошь и богатство царили во дворце, окружённом могучими крепостными стенами, а в королевской конюшне стояло много добрых коней. Однако самое почетное место занимал там… старый осел, и посетители гостеприимного королевства не переставали этому удивляться. И удивлялись они до тех пор, пока не узнавали шокирующую тайну — старый противный осел был основным инвестором в бюджет королевства, потому что… справлял нужду исключительно золотыми монетами и драгоценными камнями. Однако превратности судьбы не миновали и счастливых обитателей дворца. Королеву сразил жестокий недуг, и безутешный Король поклялся, что женится вновь только на принцессе, которая будет еще прекраснее его любимой покойной супруги.

Двое мужчин, полубродяги-полупаломники, возвращаются из Франции в Испанию. На пути они встречают целую галерею сомнительных и странных персонажей и оказываются вовлеченными в эротические, таинственные и сверхъестественные события.

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.

Mexican feature film

Дуанель увольняется из армии в возрасте 20 лет. Не сумев заставить Кристин полюбить его, он продолжает поиски идеальной женщины. Устраивается работать в детективное агентство, где заваливает любое дело, которое ему поручают расследовать. Наконец он получает возможность продемонстрировать свою «техническую пригодность», правильно завернув обувную коробку в магазине. Дуанель должен выяснить, почему владелец магазина, мсье Табард, чувствует, что его кто-то ненавидит, и существует ли против него заговор. Как-то, задержавшись на работе позднее обычного, Дуанель знакомится с Фабьен, женой Табарда, и вступает с ней в любовную связь.

История о жизни и любви молодых людей в неком фантазийном мире. Чик влюбился в Алису из-за общей страсти к писателю Жану-Солю Партру, который постепенно поглотил их отношения. Вскоре после этого главный герой Колин тоже влюбляется в молодую девушку Хлою, но после их свадьбы она вскоре страдает от странной болезни: в ее легких растет кувшинка.

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.

Интригующий и захватывающий фильм о соблазнении студентки университета после аварии, в результате которой она осталась жива, а любимый ее погиб. Рассказывает профессор, размышляющий над мертвым телом своего бывшего студента. Перед зрителем вырисовывается неуютный портрет академической жизни, окрашенной в цвета сексуального отчаяния на фоне внешне мирного и спокойного лета в Оксфорде.

Сатирический фильм об индустрии моды, повествующий о юной и крайне популярной модели Полли Магу, которая стала героиней шоу «Кто вы?» и привлекла толпы преследующих ее поклонников, в том числе принца.

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.

Элен - вдова, которая продает антиквариат из своей квартиры в Булонь-сюр-Мер. Она живет вместе со своим пасынком, эксцентричным кинематографистом. Бернар - ветеран Алжирской войны, провоевавший там 22 месяца и принимавший участие в пытках и убийстве молодой женщины по имени Мюриэль. Его преследуют воспоминания о ней. Иногда он снимает свой район. Говорит о Мюриэль с Элен, которая считает, что эта женщина - девочка, с которой ей еще предстоит познакомиться. Сама она тем временем воссоединяется со своим бывшим любовником Альфонсом, тоже ветераном Алжира, но прежние отношения не складываются. Альфонс приезжает к Элен со своей любовницей Франсуаз, которую он представляет как свою племянницу. Пока Элен, ее любовник де Смоке и Альфонс пытаются разобраться в своих чувствах, Франсуаз проявляет интерес к Бернару, у которого связь с Мари-Доминик...

Этот фильм в момент своего появления вызвал бурю споров, массу противоречивых оценок - от восторгов до полного неприятия, став на какое-то время чуть ли не нарицательным при определении заумно-интеллектуального (как на Западе) или буржуазно-элитарного (так у нас) кинематографа. Например, ошибочный вариант перевода “Прошлым летом в Мариенбаде” даже спровоцировал отечественного драматурга Александра Вампилова на демонстративно спорящую перекличку заголовка его пьесы “Прошлым летом в Чулимске”.Вторая игровая картина 39-летнего Алена Рене снята им по сценарию одного из основоположников “нового романа” Алена Роб-Грийе, затем тоже переквалифицировавшегося в режиссёры, и, несомненно, оказала в дальнейшем значительное влияние на мировой кинематограф благодаря своим оригинальным поискам и открытиям в области киноязыка. Многие из новаций, предложенных Робб-Грийе и Рене, всё равно были восприняты и усвоены деятелями кино.

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.