Sois belle et tais-toi (1981)

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   nbats

   https://ok.ru/video/2991683209894 2 years 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Delphine Seyrig gets behind the camera for Sois belle et tais-toi! (Be Pretty and Shut Up!), a series of interviews with actresses about what it means to BE a woman in the industry - Hollywood's (there's a surprising number of English speakers who have to be voiced over, then subtitle, which is confusing to the bilingual mind) and French-speaking Europe's - at what might well be the nadir for quality roles for women - shot in 1975, made available in 1981. While female powerhouses ruled the early decades of cinema (on screen, if rarely behind the scenes), and there's more diversity today (which has attracted a lot of overt misogyny), from the late 60s to the early 90s, cinema was oppressively masculine. This is where we catch up with these performers - case in point, Cindy Williams is in here decrying the fact that she's never played a warm relationship with another woman, well before Laverne & Shirley. Their consensus, severally collected, is that the movie and TV business is about bringing male fantasies to life, and not until women take control of the means (producing and directing in particular) can women's roles improve. I was particularly touched by the jobbers stuck in small or television-guesting roles that are all the same and have nothing to offer them as artists. You'd have to be a sucker for punishment to become an actor - I've always believed that - but several of Seyrig's interviewees admit they only fell into it because it was one of the very few ways for a woman to leave home, go abroad, etc. and wouldn't have done it otherwise. So though things have moved on in certain ways (and not in others, and probably very little at the low end of production quality), this remains an important reflection today 1 year 6 months ago
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   Limbesdautomne

   Always the same mantra about feminism: its first enemies are women and ideology.
   
   Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers. 5 years 2 months ago

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