French documentaries screening on MUBI

This week we take a look at some of the great documentaries which are coming up in June on MUBI – all by female directors. To give you some ideas we’ve picked our top four.

Included in the line-up, and screening from 12 June, is Callisto McNulty’s Delphine and Carole, which we showed during the 2019 Festival. It charts the creative collaboration between Delphine Seyrig and Carole Roussopoulos looking at the history of women’s rights and feminist filmmaking.

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Letters Home / Letters Home

Available 6 June

Dir Chantal Akerman

Synopsis

Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting poet Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives.

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Credits

Director Chantal Akerman
1986 | Belgium, France | 104 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 6 JUNE

Delphine and Carole / Delphine et Carole, insoumuses

Available 12 June

Dir Callisto McNulty

Synopsis

The portrait of 1970s enchanted feminism, the film retraces the encounter between actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos in 1974, their creative and disruptive use of video, their radical actions and incisive humour.

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Credits

Director Callisto McNulty
2018 | France, Switzerland | 70 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 12 JUNE

Be Pretty and Shut Up! / Sois belle et tais-toi!

Available 21 June

Dir Delphine Seyrig

Synopsis

In 1976, Delphine Seyrig asked 24 French and US actresses about their professional experiences as women, their roles and their relationships with directors. A sobering assessment of an industry that only awards parts based on clichés and stereotypes. Includes interviews with Jane Fonda, Jenny Agutter, Luce Guilbeault and Marie Dubois.

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Credits

Director Delphine Seyrig
1981 | France | 111 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 21 JUNE

F.H.A.R / Le F.H.A.R (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire)

Available 21 June

Dir Carole Roussopoulos

Synopsis

First meetings and then participation of the FHAR (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire) in a public demonstration.

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Credits

Director Carole Roussopoulos
1971 | France | 26 mins | French with English subtitles.

WATCH IT FROM 21 JUNE

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