Starring Delphine Seyrig
10 Episodes
One of the most mesmerizing presences in European art-house cinema, Delphine Seyrig was a favorite of visionary directors such as Chantal Akerman (JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES), Marguerite Duras (INDIA SONG), and Luis Buñuel (THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE), bringing an air of ethereal mystery to her minutely detailed performances. Yet Seyrig bucked against the muse role that the era’s filmmaking offered her: her penchant for working with women auteurs was an extension of her feminist politics, which she also expressed in her often-overlooked directorial work, including the revealing documentary BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP!, about the experiences of actresses working in a sexist, male-dominated film industry.
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01:00Episode 1Starring Delphine Seyrig Teaser
Episode 1
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1:56:33Episode 2Muriel, or The Time of Return
Episode 2
Directed by Alain Resnais • 1963 • France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita KleinAlain Resnais's MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN, the director's follow-up to LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminou...
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1:31:59Episode 3Mr. Freedom
Episode 3
Directed by William Klein • 1969 • France
William Klein moved into more blatantly political territory with this hilarious, vicious Vietnam-era lampoon of imperialist American foreign policy. Mr. Freedom (John Abbey), a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets...
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1:31:33Episode 4Stolen Kisses
Episode 4
Directed by François Truffaut • 1968 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Michael LonsdaleJean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful STOLEN KISSES, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has be...
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1:30:13Episode 5Donkey Skin
Episode 5
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1970 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine SeyrigIn this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend o...
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1:41:53Episode 6The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Episode 6
Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1972 • France
Starring Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul FrankeurIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and ima...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Episode 7
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • Belgium
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan DecorteA singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores ...
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1:59:26Episode 8India Song
Episode 8
Directed by Marguerite Duras • 1975 • France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu CarrièreThe most celebrated of writer-filmmaker Marguerite Duras’s singular features unfolds within the decaying decadence of an embassy in 1930s India, where a French diplomat’s wife (Delphine Seyr...
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1:37:30Episode 9Golden Eighties
Episode 9
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale SalkinThe exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love an...
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1:01:39Episode 10Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
Episode 10
