AGNES VARDA COLLECTION: VOLUME 2 by Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Jacques Demy, Christophe Alcazar, Dominique Durand, Sandrine Bonnaire, Yolande Moreau, Setti Ramdane, Joel Fosse, Francis Balchère, Patrick Schmit, Jean-Louis Perletti, Patrick Sokol, Therese Liotard, Valerie Mairess, Robert Dadies ( 5021866473307 )

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AGNES VARDA COLLECTION: VOLUME 2

Starring:

Christophe Alcazar, Francis Balchère, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Dadies, Robert Dadiès, Jacques Demy, Dominique Durand, Joel Fosse, Edouard Joubeaud, Therese Liotard, Thérèse Liotard, Valerie Mairess, Philippe Maron, Laurent Monnier, Yolande Moreau, Jean-Louis Perletti, Setti Ramdane, Patrick Schmit, Patrick Sokol

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ART473DVD

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5021866473307

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2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East)

Rel. date:

22 February, 2010

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Running Time:

451 mins

Language:

English

Description:

Four films by Nouvelle Vague director Agnes Varda. 'The Beaches of Agnes' (2008) is an intimate and inventive autobiographical account of Varda's life. A member of the French New Wave and married to fellow director Jacques Demy, Varda pioneered the 'cine-writing' style of filmmaking, carefully planning every aspect of the film in order to achieve the greatest emotional response. Taking a detour from the standard forms of storytelling, Varda relates her own story by employing a range of filmic techniques, including the re-staging of dramatic events in her life, and the use of symbolic visual sets that combine to flesh out her thoughts and concepts, while at the same time giving an insight into her creative processes through the years. Philippe Maron stars in 'Jacquot de Nantes' (1992), in which Varda recreates the childhood of her late husband, Jacques Demy. Shot in black and white on location in Demy's boyhood home, the film is intercut with actual footage of the young Demy and with scenes from his early films. The drama 'L'une Chante, L'Autre Pas' (1977) is set against the backdrop of the women's movement in 1970s France, and tracks the friendship of two women from very different backgrounds, Pomme (Valerie Mairesse) and Suzanne (Therese Liotard). Finally, the docudrama 'Vagabond' (1985) tells the story of the final few weeks of female drifter Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), who feels incapable of participating in ordinary French society. Beginning with her death, the film presents Mona's final perambulations through the lives of various characters, all of whom offered different potential for escape, options that we know Mona did not take. Through these flashbacks Varda presents her own thesis on the female free spirit in the form of Mona's life and death.

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Interactive Menus\Scene Access

Directors:

Agnes Varda, Agnès Varda

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Feature Foreign

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