Be Pretty and Shut Up!
France • 1976
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Synopsis
For this eye-opening documentary, screen icon Delphine Seyrig interviewed twenty-four French and American actresses—including Jane Fonda, Jill Clayburgh, Juliet Berto, Ellen Burstyn, Maria Schneider, and Anne Wiazemsky—about their experiences working in a film industry dominated by male directors and producers. Their candid statements shed light on the alienation many of them feel playing roles that propagate a one-dimensional image of women and which bear frustratingly little resemblance to their lived experiences.
Synopsis
For this eye-opening documentary, screen icon Delphine Seyrig interviewed twenty-four French and American actresses—including Jane Fonda, Jill Clayburgh, Juliet Berto, Ellen Burstyn, Maria Schneider, and Anne Wiazemsky—about their experiences working in a film industry dominated by male directors and producers. Their candid statements shed light on the alienation many of them feel playing roles that propagate a one-dimensional image of women and which bear frustratingly little resemblance to their lived experiences.
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DirectorDelphine Seyrig