Sois belle et tais-toi (1981)
- Original title
- Sois belle et tais-toi !
- Directed by
- Delphine Seyrig
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary interviews well-known actresses about their experiences and the expectations placed on them in the film industry. They discuss how they were often told to be pretty and keep quiet. The film shows what it felt like to work as a woman in cinema.
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What happens
Sois belle et tais-toi (Be Pretty and Shut Up) is a feminist documentary film by French actress and director Delphine Seyrig, shot in 1976 and released in 1981. It is available at the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris. The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allégret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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