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Sunday, Jan 26, 2020
1:30 PM (89 mins)
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Shorts by Agnès Varda, Program 2: Places and Faces
This collection of short works finds Varda observing people, places, and spaces from France to Iran. In L’opéra-Mouffe she evokes the “imaginative world of pregnancy” with a dreamlike montage that combines poetic imagery with documentary portraits shot in the gritty neighborhood of rue Mouffetard. Capturing azure waters and lobster-skinned tourists in the saturated hues of a vacation slide, the jaunty, witty Du côté de la côte celebrates the beauty and absurdity of the Côte d’Azur. La réponse de femmes is a feminist “ciné-tract,” a series of frontal tableaux in response to the question “What does it mean to be a woman?” In Plaisir d’amour en Iran, filmed in Isfahan, Iran, Varda considers the relationship between eros and architecture, sacred and profane. For Ulysse she interviews the subjects of a photograph she took nearly three decades earlier. And with Les dites cariatides Varda contemplates the sculpted women who support doorways and lintels along the streets of Paris, invoking Baudelaire’s “dream of stone.”
— Juliet Clark
Films in this Screening
L’opéra-Mouffe
Agnès Varda, France, 1958
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
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- B&W
- DCP
- 17 mins
source
- Janus Films
Du côté de la côte
Agnès Varda, France, 1958
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 24 mins
source
- Janus Films
La réponse de femmes
(Women’s Answer)
Agnès Varda, France, 1975
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 8 mins
source
- Janus Films
Plaisir d’amour en Iran
Agnès Varda, France, 1976
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 6 mins
source
- Janus Films
Ulysse
Agnès Varda, France, 1983
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 22 mins
source
- Janus Films
Les dites cariatides
Agnès Varda, France, 1984
FILM DETAILS
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 12 mins
source
- Janus Films