Starring Delphine Seyrig

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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Starring Delphine Seyrig

10 Episodes

  • Starring Delphine Seyrig Teaser
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    Starring Delphine Seyrig Teaser
    Episode 1

    Starring Delphine Seyrig Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Last Year at Marienbad
    1:34:45
    Last Year at Marienbad
    Episode 2

    Last Year at Marienbad

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alain Resnais • 1961 • France
    Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff

    Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD has been puzzling appreciative viewers for de...

  • Muriel, or The Time of Return
    1:56:33
    Muriel, or The Time of Return
    Episode 3

    Muriel, or The Time of Return

    Episode 3

    Directed by Alain Resnais • 1963 • France
    Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein

    Alain 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...

  • Mr. Freedom
    1:31:59
    Mr. Freedom
    Episode 4

    Mr. Freedom

    Episode 4

    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...

  • Stolen Kisses
    1:31:33
    Stolen Kisses
    Episode 5

    Stolen Kisses

    Episode 5

    Directed by François Truffaut • 1968 • France
    Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale

    Jean-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...

  • Donkey Skin
    1:30:13
    Donkey Skin
    Episode 6

    Donkey Skin

    Episode 6

    Directed by Jacques Demy • 1970 • France
    Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig

    In 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...

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    3:21:46
    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    Episode 7

    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    Episode 7

    Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • Belgium
    Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte

    A 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 ...

  • India Song
    1:59:26
    India Song
    Episode 8

    India Song

    Episode 8

    Directed by Marguerite Duras • 1975 • France
    Starring Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière

    The 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...

  • Golden Eighties
    1:37:30
    Golden Eighties
    Episode 9

    Golden Eighties

    Episode 9

    Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France
    Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale Salkin

    The 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...

  • Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
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    Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
    Episode 10

    Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig

    Episode 10

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