Agnès Varda — Playwright (33)
Fiancés on the Bridge (1961) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB
Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires)
director: Agnès Varda actor: Anna Karina / Jean-Luc Godard
other title: Die Verliebten von Pont Mac Donald / Les Fiancés du pont Mac Donald
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany (2008) [Movie] Douban
La petite histoire de Gwen la bretonne
director: 阿涅斯·瓦尔达 actor: 格温·德格利斯 / 阿涅斯·瓦尔达
other title: La petite histoire de Gwen la bretonne / 来自法国布列塔尼的格温的小故事
阿涅斯·瓦尔达去世一年多后的如今,她执导的一部纪录短片《来自法国布列塔尼的格温的小故事》(The Little Story of Gwen From French Brittany)在网络发布,记录一个法国女孩独自前往美国洛杉矶,“加州梦想”故事之一↓来自非营利组织American Cinematheque,他们在近期加强了在线分享。
Les 3 boutons (2015) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
Les 3 boutons
director: 阿涅斯·瓦尔达 actor: Jasmine Thiré / Michel Jeannès
other title: 三颗纽扣 / Les 3 Boutons
Appropriately, her own 14th arrondissement (specifically Rue Daguerre) is a source of pleasure for the protagonist (Jasmine Thiré) and viewer, having been photographed carefully, beautifully, and lovingly. The first word that this all brought to mind way “playful,” and I’m pleased that my simple descriptor is something Varda would consider appropriate. Says her, “It’s playing a game with reality. The game is called cinema.”
In Chris Marker's Studio (2011) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Dans l'atelier de Chris Marker
other title: Dans l'atelier de Chris Marker / 在克里斯·马克的工作室
A rare and beautiful moment in cinema where two friends — who happen to be pioneering, legendary filmmakers from the French New Wave — meet in real life and in a virtual world. In the film, which was shot at two points between 2009-2011, Agnès Varda visits Chris Marker in his studio, a few years before his passing. She admires his magnificent mess, snooping around for details that reveal “the hidden side of Marker’s work”: a labyrinth of wires and computer equipment, a collection of images, magazines, and books, and — of course — cats. The film takes on a wonderful surrealist turn when Varda creates an avatar to meet Marker’s avatar in the online virtual world of Second Life.
Varda by Agnès (2019) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Varda par Agnès
director: Agnès Varda actor: Agnès Varda / Sandrine Bonnaire
other title: Varda por Agnès / Varda par Agnès
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.
Daguerréotypes (1975) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
Daguerréotypes
director: Agnès Varda actor: Agnès Varda / Robert François
other title: Daguerreotypen - Leute aus meiner Straße / Daguerrotipos
An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
The Gleaners and I (2000) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
9.0 (6 ratings) director: Agnès Varda actor: Bodan Litnanski / Agnès Varda
other title: La vita è un raccolto / Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
The Creatures (1966) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Les Créatures
director: 阿涅斯·瓦尔达 actor: 凯瑟琳·德纳芙 / 米歇尔·皮科利
other title: 创造物 / Les Créatures
A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.
Along the Coast (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Du côté de la côte
director: Agnès Varda actor: Roger Coggio / Anne Ollivier
other title: Du côté de la côte
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cléo de 5 à 7
8.2 (20 ratings) director: Agnès Varda actor: Corinne Marchand / Antoine Bourseiller
other title: Cleo dalle 5 alle 7 / Cleo fra 5 til 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Vagabond (1985) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Sans toit ni loi
8.1 (7 ratings) director: Agnès Varda actor: Sandrine Bonnaire / Macha Méril
other title: Senza tetto nè legge / En pige på drift
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.