Aloise (1975)

1st Liliane de Kermadec My longstanding interest in Outsider Art and the art of the disabled leads me to this, Delphine Seyrig's third big collaboration with a female director in 1975. The others are, of course, 'Jeanne Dielman...' and 'India Song', and certainly this…

Doc Lyon

Ultimately extremely different movies but thought about my all-time fave The Annihilation of Fish because both feature women and madness, imaginary romance, a love of Puccini, and opera as a vehicle for a world so much bigger than their own (though for Aloïse, drawings…

KYK

Crazy that Isabelle Huppert (happy birthday!) grows up to be Delphine Seyrig.

david_bruner

Yoooo Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) and The Piano Teacher (Isabelle Huppert) was really top tier crossover of all time. I'm one of the 573 persons who logged this film on Letterboxd, am I niche vros ? ✌️🥹

Adam Bensoltane

The sense of remove in Huppert and Seyrig’s performances is further accentuated by the bluntness of the editing, which is often content to end scenes rather unceremoniously. It is thus morbidly appropriate, though no less tragic, that Aloïse’s death is depicted so…

Avalyn Wu

Worst wigs I have ever seen

Edie

one of the better portraits of institutionalization as a means of social control, in this case the German empire, the church and patriarchal medical standards converging to defer a woman’s artistic aspirations until  neutralization and containment of her as a mental medical…

a k

Last act was a welcome indictment of the dehumanizing way "mad art" ("visionary art"/"outsider art"/"art brut"/whatever) gets categorized, not to mention the ecosystem of academics and gallerists surrounding it. Brutal series of mirrored scenes: a smug lecture on Aloise's…

mdfmdf

Aloïse qui mène la danse est le woman empowering move dont j'avais besoin

momo