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Tag Archives: Agnès Varda
Mural Murals AKA Mur murs (1981) Agnès Varda, Juliet Berto, Judy Baca
After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary Read More »
Documenteur (1981) Agnès Varda, Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok-Linson
A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son. Read More »
The Beaches of Agnès AKA Les plages d’Agnès (2008) Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory – growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier Read More »
Cleo from 5 to 7 AKA Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) Agnès Varda, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Two hours from 17:00 to 19:00h on the longest day of the year in the life of a young Parisienne is presented. Read More »
Vagabond (1985) Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss
In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
Le bonheur / Happiness (1965) Agnès Varda, Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Drama, Romance
Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. Read More »
Les créatures / The Creatures (1966) Agnès Varda, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Drama, Fantasy
L’Univers De Jacques Demy / The World Of Jacques Demy (1995) Agnès Varda, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Nino Castelnuovo, Documentary
Daguerréotypes (1976) Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda, Documentary
Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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Jane B. par Agnès V. / Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988) Agnès Varda, Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Biography, Fantasy
Actress and recording star Jane Birkin and filmmaker Agnes Varda shared an interest in feminism.
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I (2000) François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski, Documentary
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. Read More »
Jacquot de Nantes (1991) Agnès Varda, Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Biography, Drama
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. Read More »
Kung-fu master! / Le petit amour (1988) Agnès Varda, Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Drama, Romance
Mary-Jane asks, “Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?” She’s divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, small and brassy, but she sees a sensitive side. She contrives to spend time with him and lets him know she’s available to him. He’s on the cusp between child and man, alternating between playing a video game, Kung Fu Master, where he tries to rescue Sylvie, and joining friends in bluff talk about sexual exploits. As Lucy realizes what is happening, she’s repulsed, but Mary-Jane, encouraged by her own mother, carries on. Is it love or jealousy of lost youth? Is there any way this can end well?
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