Directed by Agnès Varda • 1983 • France
In this ruminative cross-pollination of film and photography, Agnès Varda uses a mysterious still image that she took in the late fifties—of a nude man (the photographer Guy Bourdin, a friend of hers) and a toddler on a rocky beach, flanked by a dead goat with a swelling belly in the foreground—as the springboard for a contemplation on the passing of time and the subjectivity of meaning in art.
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Les dites cariatides
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1984 • France
Agnès Varda turns her camera on the sculpted female figures that grace the architecture of Paris.
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Vagabond
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1985 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane FreissSandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of VAGABOND. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s sto...
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7 p., cuis., s. de b. . . . (à saisir)
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1984 • France
Starring Louis Bec, Colette Bonnet, Yolande MoreauAn ensemble performs a bizarre parody of domesticity at an abandoned Avignon hospice center in this richly surrealist experimental work.
