![]() ![]() Their answers illuminate the fact that not much has changed in the forty years since: there is still no equal gender representation in the film industry, and female directors continue to be a rarity. In it they interrogate actresses in Hollywood and France – Jane Fonda and Maria Schneider among them – about their experience in front of the camera. ![]() McNulty includes material the two insoumuses filmed to illustrate their various projects, including interviews from Shut Up and Be Pretty. ![]() Making use of archived materials (the insoumuses later founded the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center, adding the preservation of footage of the women’s rights movement to their list of achievements) and interviews with the late Roussopoulos, Calisto McNulty creates an electrifying documentary that burns bright with relevance. They staked their claim on the new and unexplored medium of video – filming with small, portable cameras – and began documenting protest marches, interrogating the role of women in society, and questioning the Hollywood status quo. Coming together in the early 1970s, they formed a collective focusing on feminist issues and film. Les insoumuses – the disobedient muses: actress Delphine Seyrig and filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos. ![]()
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