BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP
“They say I’m castrating just by looking at me. Do you feel castrated?”
This anti-illusive exercise in cinematic herstory compiles the recollections and analyses of Jane Fonda, Juliet Berto, Maria Schneider and other international starlets about the victories and prospects of Women’s Liberation on the severe patriarchy of popular film production and the society that bolsters it.
Directed by long-time actress-activist Delphine Seyrig, previously compelled to ‘be pretty and shut up’ by such arch-auteurs as Alain Resnais, Luis Bunuel, and Francois Truffaut. Preceded by Seyrig’s 1976 recitation of Valerie Solanas’ infamous second-wave call to arms, ‘The S.C.U.M. Manifesto’.
directed by Delphine Seyrig, (FR 1981, 115 min). In French with English subtitles
with Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider, Barbara Steele