Delphine Seyrig
Birthday: 1932-04-10
Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Biography: Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She became active in the feminist movement in the 1970s along with filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 1975, Seyrig joined forces with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder to form the collective Les Insoumuses (The Resistant Muses) and produced videos that became an emancipatory tool and medium of political activism.
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Stolen Kisses
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story re...
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but neve...
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The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...
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Donkey Skin
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father....
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Hedda Gabler
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble....
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Un mois à la campagne
1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. Th...
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The Black Windmill
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca...
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Mr. Freedom
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives wit...
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Golden Eighties
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall...
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Aloïse
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on e...
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Daughters of Darkness
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the myster...
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I Sent a Letter to My Love
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried ...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was dr...
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1...
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Dear Michele
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who i...
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélèn...
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Accident
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in ...
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India Song
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the ...
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Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Ma...
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Say it with Flowers
The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodi...
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Freak Orlando
Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magda...
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Tartuffe
Orgon and his mother swear by Tartuffe, the self-styled devout who lives off them. The other members...
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The Garden That Tilts
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approach...
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Le Troisième Concerto
Delphine Seyrig is Catherine Miller, an internationally renowned pianist. Married and mother of a li...
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Voix off
Two worlds are involved. The internal world, closed, virtually isolated, with just one tenuous, unce...
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Pictures of Europe
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures...
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A Doll's House
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works ...
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Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
Documentary about French film actress and director Delphine Seyrig featuring an interview filmed in ...
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Faces of Love
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can m...
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Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK O...
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La Musica
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincia...
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The Colors of Madness
This short film about the links between the experience of madness ans pictorial expression, comprise...
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Duras and Cinema
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her...
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Angry Annie
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs...
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Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken priso...
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Grain of Sand
Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes ...
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The Ambassadors
Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate m...
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill....
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Letters Home
A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence...
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In Memory
One year after the death of Simone de Beauvoir (14 april 1986) Delphine Seyrig pays homage by visiti...
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Pull My Daisy
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the fi...
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The Last Word
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company...
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De doute et de grâce
Of Doubt and Grace: A spell-binding reading by Delphine SEYRIG of extracts of Carole NAGGAR's text "...
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Scum Manifesto
Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto....
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Maso and Miso Go Boating
The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giro...
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Diary of a Suicide
On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female ...
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film abou...
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The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way...
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, ...
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Documenteur
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh ...
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The Colour of Words
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins ...
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Delphine and Carole
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were ...
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Le lys dans la vallée
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes ...
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The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Ear...
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Spray of the Days
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually d...
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Black Sun
Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Ma...
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Last Year at Marienbad
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have ...
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On the Move
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife an...
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmak...
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Cry of the Heart
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, ...
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Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story
Delphine Seyrig decided to work on a film project about Calamity Jane to reveal Jane’s sensibility a...
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The Man of Destiny
One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and soci...
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Superbia – The Pride
Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical form...
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fash...
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Le petit Pommier
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreate...
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Inês
Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and ...
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The Lost Way
While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the ...
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Energy of Delusion
My aim is to create a highly compressed museum of cinema, consisting of some of the most notoriously...
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
Her whole childhood, Marguerite Duras spent her time moving. Her house in Neauphle-le-Château is the...
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Qui donc a rêvé?
A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the m...
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In Her Own Words
This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in ...
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