1971
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Sep 20, 1976 · Aloïse: Directed by Liliane de Kermadec. With Isabelle Huppert, Delphine Seyrig, Marc Eyraud, Michael Lonsdale. The unsuccessful Swiss artist Aloïse Corbaz finds work at the court of the German emperor and gets infatuated.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Liliane de Kermadec
- 1976-09-20
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland.
Aloïse is a 1975 French drama film directed by Liliane de Kermadec. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
Swiss artist. Now considered one of the major figures of art brut, Aloïse is well known to a wider audience today thanks to the eponymous 1975 film by Liliane de Kermadec (born 1928), starring Delphine Seyrig.
Aloïse Corbaz spent most of her life in a Swiss psychiatric hospital, where she produced artwork characterised by a Surrealist notion of the infinitely revelatory nature of romantic passion, employing the rudimentary materials she had available, including toothpaste, thread, and juice from plants as well as coloured pencil and oil pastel.
Mar 7, 2018 · Aloïse was the author of a personal cosmogony made by historical heroines drowned in blue and red, like Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth or Cleopatra. The theme of the amorous couple, associated with his passion for theater and opera, predominates in his work.
Aloïse tells the life story of the Swiss schizophrenic outsider artist Aloïse Corbaz, part of the Art Brut movement of the early 20th century. She's portrayed here by two of France's finest actresses - Isabelle Huppert in her youth and Delphine Seyrig in her mature and older years.
