Review of a book or film that focuses on somebody who has made an important contribution to society

Delphine Seyrig biography: A feminist life Sheldom do I find time to read, however when I take time out of my hectic schedule, I like nothing more than learning new things. Who doesn’t like to watch a classical or an independent French film? Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche or Delphine Seyrig are well-known iconic actress to lovers of cinema. What is not usually so renowned by spectators is Delphine Seyrig’s impact on feminist causes during the seventies. The accomplished actress who has played sophisticated roles in Margarite Duras’s films, as well as surrealists ones in Luis Buñuels’s, or minimalists in Chantal Akerman’s films, had also an active battling for improving women’s conditions. The book focus not only in her militancy, but also remembers some of her most significance works to this matter. Delphine was the main actress of Jeanne Dielman, the film made by Akerman, set in a domestic interior in Brussels and focused on three days of a housewife’s live -Delphine- doing the domestic chores. A bold experiment that proposed an alternative narrative in which the purpose was making the spectator felling the pass of time, connecting him/her with this domestic jail. Heavily influenced by this experience, the actress also developed her own projects and documentaries in which women pointed out troubles had found just for the fact of being women. I couldn’t put down the reading of this great biography written with a fresh and rich style, as well as I became conscious on the way cinema can contribute to social changes. I absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in Delphine’s career and French feminism; I promise you won’t regret it.