DELPHINE AND CAROLE

Director: Callisto McNulty

Details: 2019, France/ Switzerland, 69 min, Documentary

18 years old and up

Synopsis: This revealing portrait of the friendship between screen icon Delphine Seyrig, known for her work with Chantal Akerman, Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Duras, Jacques Demy, and François Truffaut, among others, and documentary filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos, a pioneer in the use of video to make political films, serves as an invigorating reminder of the struggles and triumphs of 1970s feminism, perfectly timed to our current moment of renewed activism for equality and accountability. Initially developed at the request of the late Carole Roussopoulos, Callisto McNulty’s sensitive film uses present-day interviews and rich archival material to tell the story of these two women’s collaborations on epochal videos that combined outrage and humor to bear witness to the Women’s Liberation Movement’s joyful, creative, and untiring efforts to combat systemic misogyny and support the rights of women. Featuring generous excerpts from Seyrig and Roussopoulos’s rarely screened video archives side by side with truly jaw-dropping examples of sexism in mainstream media, the film serves as a primer of a kind of activism born of a true democratic impulse. Look for archival interviews with luminaries including Simone de Beauvoir, Jane Fonda, Marguerite Duras, and Chantal Akerman.

Festivals: Selected at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. Berlinale, San Sebastian, Doc Avid, Jeonju, Mar Del Plata, Namur.

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