The best Simone de Beauvoir’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Simone de Beauvoir’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Simone de Beauvoir.
Delphine and Carole
7.3/10
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.
Algren
6.9/10
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
6.9/10
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Disorder
5.6/10
Docufiction set in the Paris art scene.
Maso and Miso Go Boating
7.4/10
The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.
Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
The Lévi-Strauss Century
Documentary about one of the greatest French thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).
Walking in the Land of the Old
A documentary directed by Marianne Ahrne, based on the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's Essay of the Age. The film discusses whether older people are really treated as human beings or not
Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews
Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism.
Questionnaire - Simone de Beauvoir: pourquoi je suis féministe
8.4/10
