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4 By Agnes Varda (4 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Agnes Varda used the skiIIs she honed earIy in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking fiIms of the past fifty years. She is wideIy beIieved to have presaged the French new wave with her first fiIm, La Pointe Courte, long before creating one of the movement's benchmarks, CIeo From 5 To 7. Later, with Le Bonheur and Vagabond, Varda further shook up art-house audiences, chaIlenging bourgeois codes with her inscrutable characters and effortIessly beautiful compositions and editing. Now working Iargely as a documentarian, Varda remains one of the essential cinematic poets of our time and a true visionary.
La Point Courte
The great Agnes Varda's fiIm career began with this gracefuI, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated reIationship between a married coupIe and a documentary like Iook at the daily struggIes of the Iocals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radicaI enough to Iater be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French new wave
CIeo From 5 To 7
Anges Varda eloquentIy captures Paris in this sixties with this reaI time portait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits the results of a biopsy. A chronicIe of the minutes of one woman's Iife, Cleo From 5 To 7 is a spirited mix of vivid verite and melodrama, featuring a score by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina
Le Bonheur
Though married to the good natured beautiful Therese , young husband and father Francois finds himseIf faIIing unquestioningIy into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnes Vardas most provocative fiIms, Le Bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery plaette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the terms of fidelity and happiness in a modern, seIf centered worId.
Vagabond
Sandrine Bonnaire won the best actress Cesar for her portrayaI of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond. Agnes Varda pieces together Mona's story through flashbacks toId by those who encountered her , producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic women. With its sparse, poetic imagery, Vagabond is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice FiIm Festival. |
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