セリッグ唯一の長編監督作で記録映画。23人の女優への質問を通じ、男性中心の映画界に対する彼女たちの率直で親密な本音を映し出す、歴史的重要作。
The only feature-length directorial work by actress Delphine Seyrig, known for films like 'Last Year at Marienbad' and 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles', released in 1976. This documentary interviews 23 actresses active in Hollywood and Paris. Seyrig herself serves as the interviewer, asking two questions: 'If you were a man, would you still have chosen this profession?' and 'Have you ever played a friendly scene with another actress?' The film features a range of women—from famous film actresses like Jane Fonda ('Julia'), Shirley MacLaine ('The Apartment'), Juliet Berto ('Céline and Julie Go Boating'), Anne Wiazemsky ('La Chinoise'), and Maria Schneider ('Last Tango in Paris'), to TV actresses and unknowns—speaking frankly, intimately, and sometimes humorously about gender questions that were risky to answer in the male-dominated film industry of the time. The original title 'Sois belle et tais-toi!' (Be beautiful and shut up) is said to have been a phrase used against women in French film and theater, and is now a cliché symbolizing gender discrimination in English-speaking countries. In Japan, it will have its first theatrical release in July 2026 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its production.
Source: cinematokyo.com · Tokyo mini-theater & independent cinema showtimes.