Delphine Seyrig
Acting
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.
Born: April 10, 1932
Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Known For
Duras and Cinema
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.
Comédie
An adaptation of the Beckett play
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
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.
Angry Annie
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
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.
Le lys dans la vallée
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In 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 imagined.
Last Year at Marienbad
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Filmography
as Jeanne Dielman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (voice)
as Self [archive footage]
as (archive footage)
as Jeanne Dielman (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Lady Windermere
as Narrator
as Bettlerfürstin
as Self
as Marie-Claude Poitevin
as Jeanne
as Kabuki Theatre Lady (segment "Pride")
as Aurelia Plath
as Dr. Mabuse / Grand Inquisitor of Seville
as Solange
as Helena Müller, als Lebensbaumgöttin, Kaufhausonsängerin, Mutter der Wundergeburt, Helena-Maya, Siamese sister Lena, Bunny Helena
as Delphine (voice)
as The Lady
as Self - Interviewer
as La mère
as Catherine Bertram
as Yvette
as Mathilde
as Barbara
as Julie
as L'inconnue
as Marie de Vionnet
as Adriana Vivanti
as Anne-Marie Stretter
as Jeanne Dielman
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Anne-Marie Stretter
as Kate
as Aloïse (adulte)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Simone
as Narrator / Inês Etienne Romeu
as Mme Bunkermann
as Françoise Berger, the mother
as Ceil Burrows
as Kristine Linde
as Colette de Montpellier
as L'interprète
as Simone Thévenot
as Elmire
as Countess Elizabeth Báthory
as The Fairy
as Madame de Mortsauf
as The Prostitute
as Marie-Madeline
as Fabienne Tabard
as Narrator (voice)
as Hedda Gabler
as Her
as Francesca
as Une rédactrice
as Natalia Petrovna
as La maîtresse (F 2)
as Marie de Vionnet
as Self
as Hélène Aughain
as A – The Brunette Woman
as Michele Martin
as Milo's Wife
as Betty Durham