Grazie ad un mio caro amico, anche lui cinemadipendete, passerò la giornata a visionare i documentari di una delle mie registe preferite: Agnès Varda.
La DocAlliance fino al 17 febbraio dedica una retrospettiva online GRATUITA alla regista.
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Retrospective / Agnès Varda
A new project entitled The Greats of World Documentary Film is launched with a unique retrospective of 17 documentary films including the successful documentaries The Beaches of Agnès and The Gleaners and I by the French director Agnès Varda.
Films for the event
QUELQUES VEUVES DE NOIRMOUTIER
QUELQUES VEUVES DE NOIRMOUTIER (Orig.) / 2006 / France / 70 min
The film is about the widows on the island Noirmoutier…
YDESSA, THE BEARS AND ETC.
YDESSA, LES OURS et ETC… (Orig.) / 2004 / France / 44 min
In two huge rooms, discover hundreds of old photographs: children in their Sunday best, families gathered, groups of friends, athletes or colleagues, etc., and discover that in each picture we also see a teddy bear…
WOMEN REPLY: OUR BODIES, OUR SEX
RÉPONSE DE FEMMES (Orig.) / 1975 / France / 8 min
To the question “What is a woman?” posed by a television station, a few women filmmakers have responded, including Agnès Varda…
BLACK PANTHERS
BLACK PANTHERS (Orig.) / 1968 / France / 30 min
This film was shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organized by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Netwon, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate…
SALUT LES CUBAINS
SALUT LES CUBAINS (Orig.) / 1963 / France / 30 min
Four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Agnès Varda brought back from Cuba 1,800 photos and used them to make an educational and amusing documentary…
UNCLE YANCO
UNCLE YANCO (Orig.) / 1967 / France / 22 min
This is a portrait of the painter Jean Varda, my uncle…
ELSA LA ROSE
ELSA LA ROSE (Orig.) / 1965 / France / 20 min
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet…
Diary of a Pregnant Woman
L’OPÉRA-MOUFFE (Orig.) / 1958 / France / 17 min
The diary of a pregnant woman in a neighborhood called la Mouffe (on rue Mouffetard in Paris). The market, the bums, the drunks…
THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS
LES PLAGES D’AGNES (Orig.) / 2008 / France / 110 min
Returning to the beaches which have been parts of her life, Agnès Varda invents a kind of self-portrait-documentary…
Two years later
DEUX ANS APRÈS (Orig.) / 2001 / France / 64 min
In 2000, Agnès Varda made her much-praised documentary LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE / THE GLEANERS AND I, filming gleaners who live on discarded or left food…
The Gleaners and I
LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE (Orig.) / 1999 / France / 82 min
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…
L’UNIVERS DE JACQUES DEMY
L’UNIVERS DE JACQUES DEMY (Orig.) / 1993 / France / 90 min
After doing a fiction film about Jacques’ childhood (Jacquot de Nantes), my idea was to make a documentary—a relatively objective one—about Jacques Demy, as an adult and a filmmaker…
DOCUMENTEUR
DOCUMENTEUR (Orig.) / 1981 / France / 63 min
In Los Angeles, Emilie wanders in the shadows of her emotions. She is obsessed with words, she works in front of the ocean…
DAGUERRÉOTYPES
DAGUERRÉOTYPES (Orig.) / 75 / France / 75 min
Daguerréotypes is not a film about the Rue Daguerre (a picturesque street in the fourteenth district of Paris where I live), it is a film about one block of that street (between the number 70 and the number 90)…
LA POINTE COURTE
LA POINTE COURTE (Orig.) / 1954 / France / 80 min
There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector’s visit, the death of a child) alternate with others following a couple…
THE SO-CALLED CARYATIDS
LES DITES CARIATIDES (Orig.) / 1984 / France / 13 min
Women statues, human columns, the Caryatids of Paris…
Grazie, grazie, grazie 🙂 Il suo film “Cléo de 5 à 7” è tra i miei preferiti! Non conosco i suoi documentari, devo subito ricuperare!
Vale la pena vederli tutti, io adoro Agnès 😉
Buona visione!!!