The key takeaway from the essential Delphine Seyrig retrospective opening at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive might be how little we Americans know of and appreciate the great French actress dexterity the many faces and the many roles she embodied.
Almost all of the films screening are essential in their own individual way, but brought together under Seyrigs name, they give us a new way of appreciating the legacy of one of Frances greatest film artists. She was luminous and worldly, possessed of a blade-like intelligence and a deep political activism that could be purified andblunt and confrontational or absurd a…
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