One Hundred and One Nights
One Hundred and One Nights • 1h 45m
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1995 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin
A celebration of cinema’s centennial, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant sense of style and an adoring but slightly off-kilter perspective on the magic of filmmaking. French New Wave icon Michel Piccoli is a mysterious aging impresario named Simon Cinéma who has hired a young film student, Camille (Julie Gayet), to simply sit with him at his mansion and talk about movies. Skeptical yet increasingly enchanted, Camille bears witness to cinema itself coming to life, allowing Varda to wittily integrate a mind-boggling parade of appearances by screen legends (Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Robert De Niro, and many others), and attest to the vigorous health of the movies at the close of the twentieth century.
Up Next in One Hundred and One Nights
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A Fun Moment with Michel Piccoli
In this program from 2004, director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel Piccoli.
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Set Visits: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS
Director Agnès Varda narrates this behind-the-scenes footage featuring some stars that make cameo appearances in ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, including Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and the three Ds—Deneuve, De Niro, and Delon.
