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Several Futures is an independent film distributor with a focus on auteurist and anti-imperialist work. The label was founded in 2022 by filmmaker and programmer Graham L. Carter in the hopes of bringing films to North America that might otherwise not be released. “My loyalty is always with the oppressed.” - Heiny Srour.

One of a handful of female outsider artists to earn praise from the early exponents of art brut, Aloïse Corbaz—born in modest circumstances in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1886; institutionalized as a schizophrenic in 1918; and kept under psychiatric observation until her death in 1964—is portrayed here by two of the premiere European actresses of their respective generations: Isabelle Huppert, who plays Corbaz as a ruminative, searching young woman, and Delphine Seyrig, astonishingly committed as the elder artist.

Produced by Paul Vecchiali, de Kermadec’s sophomore feature, newly restored by Cinémathèque Française, is an ideal introduction to an unjustly forgotten giant of post–New Wave French cinema, who in the same year of its release would serve as one of the producers on Seyrig and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce.

Restored in 4K by TF1 Studio, La Cinémathèque française and Cinémathèque suisse at Hiventy and Transperfect laboratories, from the original negatives.

directed by: Liliane de Kermadec
starring: Delphine Seyrig, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Weber, Michael Lonsdale
1975 / 117 min / 1.66:1 / French DTS-HD MA 2.0

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Region A Blu-ray
Qui donc a rêvé? (1965) - a short film by de Kermadec inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, also starring Delphine Seyrig
Couleurs folie (1986) - a short film by Abraham Ségal, featuring Seyrig and painter Mary Barnes
Plus a booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Tim Palmer, and a new translation of ‘A Tribute to Liliane de Kermadec: Exceptional Destinies and Constrained Desires’ by Alexandre Moussa
New Artwork by Tyler Rubenfeld
English subtitles

Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 5 reviews.

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Great release!

"The unsuccessful Swiss artist Aloïse Corbaz finds work at the court of the German emperor and gets infatuated. Showing frank symptoms of insanity she is hospitalized."

— Sebastian V. (5/5)

Very good

"I hadn't heard of this and took a chance. Thank you for releasing this."

— Mark B. (4/5)

Strong cast

"Little known biopic worth visiting for the quality of acting. Nice release"

— Jose C. (5/5)

Excellent

"Isabelle Huppert. No more needs to be said except don’t sleep on this. Great transfer"

— Andrew I. (5/5)

breathtaking restoration of a feminist

"breathtaking restoration of a feminist masterpiece featuring Seyrig and Huppert…"

— Anthony C. (5/5)