Delphine Seyrig

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Delphine Seyrig in The Day of the Jackal (1973)



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Originally Posted by mitchspur

See also posts by beutewolf here & here


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"Mister Freedom" (William Klein, 69), promo pic.

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Coincidentally, I found myself on the IMDb page of a film featuring Delphine Seyrig, and there was this "freeze frame" of the trailer featured at page top:



I thought, whoa, hossie! Who is that beautiful, elegant and sophisticated creature?



The comedic film was The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), which had won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film; people arrive on the wrong night for a dinner, giving Luis Buñuel opportunity to rant against the ills of capitalism and the United States. I figured they sure cast a wonderful looking woman to represent the upper class. (The reason why I found myself on this page, by the way, is because I learned "bourgeois" was originally defined as middle-class and conventional, the opposite of what I believed was the definition, and I was curious as to the context of "bourgeoisie" in this film, and whether it was in keeping with my knowledge of the word... which is the ruling class. I think it was. Don't you hate it when you are sure of what something means, and then get thrown a curve?)


From La chevauchée sur le lac de Constance,
("The Ride on Lake Constance"), a 1974 TV movie

So I had to learn who she was, and boy, was I embarrassed when I did. In 2013's Post #4, Member "Mitchspur" wrote:

Originally Posted by mitchspur

The Black Windmill.
This was the first time I ever saw her, and was completely bowled over!!

I never thought I would be a part of the #MeToo movement (I don't want your pity, but I, too, have been a victim. There was that time, for example, when I caught my nose in a windshield wiper), but when I read the line above, I thought, Me, Too!

Once I watched The Black Windmill, I was so impressed by the actress who played the "bad girl," I had to find out who she was — leading to viewings of Mr. Freedom (1968) and Day of the Jackal (1973). In other words, since I had investigated this lady, I should have known her inside out. Yet when I saw that image from The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, I did not recognize her. Shame on me for not being on the ball.


From THE BLACK WINDMILL

(By the way, there were two other actresses who rudely led me to involuntarily smack my lips; one was the lady who played Michael Caine's wife, Janet Suzman, who has her own VEF thread — only one page; not fair — and especially Catherine Schell, pictured below from the film. She deservedly also has her own thread.)


Catherine Schell was also a Bond girl.

All of these films featuring Delphine in the buff have been covered already on this modest thread, but I'd like to offer my take on this beauty. Her nude scene from The Black Windmill (directed by the great Don Siegel) involved pressure being placed on secret agent Caine by the bad guys who kidnapped his young son, and the chief bad guy, the always reliable John Vernon, takes a photo of our lovely lady, in order to cast suspicion on Caine. (Connecting him with the kidnappers.)


Get a load of the accentuated "hourglass" in the second photo.




In the last shot, the cops find the incriminating photo, stashed with Caine's private belongings. (I don't recall the pillow, or whatever that is, seen in the photograph. When her photo was taken, I'm sorry, but there was nothing placed in front of her body to hide the goods. Could this 1974 film have been instead made in more prudish times to come, as possibly 2014?)




I was also very impressed with Mademoiselle Seyrig in Day of the Jackal. I didn't quite understand how her fellow hotel guest so easily managed to get in her pants (Delphine was reluctant at first, but that lasted only a moment), since the actor who played the "Jackal" was Edward Fox (not a particularly dashing fellow), but what I didn't understand at all was that she was so taken by him, she still allowed him to get close to her even after she discovered he was a killer. (The "bad boy" attraction should go only so far, for God's sake.)



I later caught the remake of this film, with Bruce Willis in the role of the Jackal. The twist in the newer version is that the one who couldn't resist the killer's charms was a man, and not a woman. (Ho-hum.) Maybe that was a good thing, because the later film was made in 1997, when cinematic nudity of women in mainstream movies came to be a rarity. At least we got a little nudity in the original, and thankfully the nudity came from this very sexy woman, but unfortunately one needed to do a little squinting to find feast for the eyes. (As is the case with the second photo above.)




A couple of shots of Delphine from Mr Freedom, a social commentary film that hides behind superheroes. The filmmaker was an American (and not the usual European) who had critical statements to make about U.S. imperialism; I see this director, William Klein — whom the actress respected, and had a deep bond with — died a couple of months ago.




These two shots are from 1975's India Song, where Delphine was kind enough to briefly expose herself.



When I saw the photo above, I thought, was our actress in Moonraker? (The French actor was that film's villain, a rather lackluster one from the James Bond films.) Turned out to be from India song, concerning the bored wife of a French ambassador living in Calcutta who engages in a series of love affairs. The film is unconventional, and the story is presented without much dialogue.



A little lesbian action with Danielle Ouimet in the middle photo. John Karlen is the man.

As a sexy Hungarian countess in Daughters of Darkness (1971) who just may be after the blood of two other hotel guests who are newlyweds.



Our lady with Giorgio Albertazzi, from
Last Year at Marienbad (1961).

Delphine was a fierce feminist, which after a while got in the way of her getting work with some male directors, and she found herself mostly working with female directors. (One source claims she had little choice, but another claims that since she was a name, "By starring in films directed by women, Seyrig hoped to bring their films into the spotlight.") She directed four films, one called Scum Manifesto (1976; S.C.U.M. stands for "Society for Cutting Up Men"), where excerpts from the 1967 work (written by the lady who shot Andy Warhol) are staged, and the other was Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981), with interviewed famous actresses who relate their experiences about being told to "Be beautiful and stop talking!"


She looked smashing. Shots identified as a talk show called "The Guest of Sunday," from 1969.

Delphine was Alsatian (German speaker from France) and Swiss. She sadly was claimed by lung cancer at the early age of fifty-eight (in 1990). In 2019, a documentary utilizing archival materials was made about her and another feminist (co-director of Scum Manifesto), entitled, Delphine and Carole, which focuses on the ladies' use of video (a new camera came on the scene, the Sony portapak) to make their message heard. Here she is, from an interview (likely from the 1970s) featured in this documentary:




Delphine revealed what's underneath her attire in another film that has so far been overlooked on the thread. The nudity, alas not much to speak of (she's in the bathtub), is from Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), a film that is over three hours long.



In his 1983 review, Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that our actress has a "screen presence comparable, perhaps, only to Garbo." The film concerns a "widow-and-mother who supports herself and her teen-age son by prostitution," where three days in her empty life are examined, and then her world comes apart.




(EDIT: Inadvertently glanced at the first page again, and noticed Mitchspur, valued member since 2008 and still with us — he has a fine personality, too — had offered nudies from the above film, and the photos are of good quality, too. He had generously provided so many shots in his Post #3 from nine years ago — I'm now seeing two of my other photos have also been featured on the first row of his photos — they were difficult to single out.)


EDIT: As a point of interest: "What are the greatest films of all time? ...For many cineastes, a poll conducted once a decade by the British film magazine Sight and Sound has served as the gold standard since 1952." So began a New York Times article that appeared after this post was published. Whereas the list focused on the to-be-expected titles such as Citizen Kane in the past, this time around, they (also to-be-expected) made a point of making more room for global films, as well as those by women and Black filmmakers, and films with an L.G.B.T.Q. bent. Guess which one made the Number One slot... a film I was not aware of before researching this post; it's the one referred to above, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, by Chantal Akerman. ("It’s a pioneering work of slow cinema — in one unbroken shot, the title character makes a meatloaf for more than three minutes — and represents the first appearance of any female director in any Sight and Sound Top 10.")







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