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

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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