Reincarnations Of A Rebel Muse

David Hudson at The Current:

The title of a series currently running at New York’s Metrograph through February 1, Delphine Seyrig: Rebel Muse, neatly encapsulates a notion that Beatrice Loayza seeks to reevaluate in a series she’s programmed for the Harvard Film Archive. Loayza notes that Seyrig’s “career tends to be defined along the same narrative: she was a muse to European auteurs like Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, Joseph Losey, and Luis Buñuel before repudiating her goddesslike image and pursuing collaborations that challenged and complicated the feminine persona that made her a star.” The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig, opening Friday and running through March 2, “reframes the French-Lebanese actress’s body of work and breaks it out of this before-and-after template.”

The daughter of a French father and Swiss mother, Seyrig spent the first ten years of her life in Beirut and eventually studied acting, first in France and then at the Actors Studio in New York. There, she fell in with a bohemian crowd and landed her first small film role as the long-suffering wife of a conductor played by artist Larry Rivers in Pull My Daisy (1959), the thirty-minute Beat milestone written by Jack Kerouac and directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie.

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