The Cinema of Agnès Varda - Long and Short - 14-DVD Box Set ( La Pointe-Courte / Cléo de 5 à 7 / Le bonheur / Les créatures / Lions Love (... and Lies) / L'une chante l'autre pas / Sans toit ni loi / Jane B. par Agnès V. / Kung-fu master! / Jacquot de Nantes / Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma / Du côté de la c ) ( Short Point / Cléo from 5 to 7 / Happiness / The Creatures / Lions Love (... and Lies) / One Sings, the Other Doesn't / Vagabond / Jane B. for Agnes V. / Kung-Fu Master! / Jacquot of Nantes / One Hundred and One Nights / O Seasons, O Castles / Along the )

The Cinema of Agnès Varda - Long and Short - 14-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Pointe-Courte / Cléo de 5 à 7 / Le bonheur / Les créatures / Lions Love (... and Lies) / L'une chante l'autre pas / Sans toit ni loi / Jane B. par Agnès V. / Kung-fu master! / Jacquot de Nantes / Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma / Du côté de la c
Alternate Title: Short Point / Cléo from 5 to 7 / Happiness / The Creatures / Lions Love (... and Lies) / One Sings, the Other Doesn't / Vagabond / Jane B. for Agnes V. / Kung-Fu Master! / Jacquot of Nantes / One Hundred and One Nights / O Seasons, O Castles / Along the
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1980 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Collectors Edition
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Special Edition
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1955-2015 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )
Venezuela ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Agnès Varda

Written By:
Agnès Varda
Michael McClure
Jane Birkin
Jacques Demy

Louis Aragon
Charles Baudelaire

Actors:
Philippe Noiret ..... Lui
Silvia Monfort ..... Elle
Marcel Jouet ..... Raphäel Scotto
Albert Lubrano ..... Albert Soldino
Anna Banegas ..... Anna Soldino
André Lubrano ..... Dédé Soldino
Rossette Lubrano ..... La femme d'Albert
Corinne Marchand ..... Florence 'Cléo' Victoire
Antoine Bourseiller ..... Antoine
Dominique Davray ..... Angèle
Jean-Claude Drouot ..... François Chevalier
Claire Drouot ..... Thérèse Chevalier
Olivier Drouot ..... Pierrot Chevalier
Catherine Deneuve ..... Mylène
Michel Piccoli ..... Edgar Piccoli
Eva Dahlbeck ..... Michele Quellec
Viva ..... Viva
James Rado ..... Jim
Gerome Ragni ..... Jerry
Thérèse Liotard ..... Suzanne Galibier - puis Aubanel
Valérie Mairesse ..... Pauline alias Pomme
Robert Dadiès ..... Jérôme
Sandrine Bonnaire ..... Mona sans toit ni loi
Setti Ramdane ..... Le marocain qui la trouve
Francis Balchère ..... Un gendarme
Jane Birkin ..... Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... L'amoureux colérique
Philippe Léotard ..... Le peintre / Murderer
Jane Birkin ..... Mary-Jane
Mathieu Demy ..... Julien
Charlotte Gainsbourg ..... Lucy
Philippe Maron ..... Jacquot 1
Edouard Joubeaud ..... Jacquot 2
Laurent Monnier ..... Jacquot 3
Michel Piccoli ..... Simon Cinéma
Marcello Mastroianni ..... L'ami italien / The Italian Friend
Henri Garcin ..... Firmin, le majordome / The butler
Antoine Bourseiller ..... Narrator
Danièle Delorme ..... Narrator
Clotilde Joano ..... Model
Roger Coggio ..... Récitant / Narrator
Anne Olivier ..... Récitante / Narrator
Jacopo Nizi ..... Souffleur
Dorothée Blanck ..... L'amoureuse
Antoine Bourseiller ..... Lover
André Rousselet
Anna Karina ..... Anna, la jeune fille blonde
Jean-Luc Godard ..... L'homme aux lunettes noires
Emilienne Caille ..... La fiancée noire
Michel Piccoli ..... Récitant
Juan Almeida ..... Self
Alejo Carpentier ..... Self
Louis Aragon ..... Self
Michel Piccoli ..... Récitant / Narrator
Elsa Triolet ..... Self
Jean Varda ..... Self
Tom Luddy ..... Self
Agnès Varda ..... Self
Bill Brent ..... Self - Captain in the Black Panther
Huey P. Newton ..... Self
Stokely Carmichael ..... Self
Caroline Baudry ..... La femme enceinte
Catherine ..... Elle-même, voix
Agnès Varda ..... Une femme
Maryline Even
Ali Rafie ..... Darius
Thérèse Liotard ..... Récitante
Fouli Elia ..... Self
Ulysse Llorca ..... Self
Charles de Gaulle ..... Self
Agnès Varda ..... Self - Interviewer / Narrator (uncredited
Agnès Varda ..... La récitante / voix
Hervé Mangani ..... Le père (jeune)
Louis Bec ..... Le père (âgé)
Saskia Cohen Tanugi ..... La mère (jeune)
Isabelle Adjani ..... Isabelle
Agnès Varda ..... Récitante / Narrator (uncredited
Ydessa Hendeles ..... Self
Jasmine Thiré ..... La jeune fille
Michel Jeannès ..... Monsieur Bouton
Jacky Patin ..... Le facteur

Synopsis:

Short Point: 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 - He is from La Pointe Courte, she is Parisian - coming to terms with their changing relationship. Cléo from 5 to 7: Two hours from 17:00 to 19:00h on the longest day of the year in the life of a young Parisienne is presented. Florence Victoire, who is better known by her stage name Cléo Victoire (as in Cleopatra), is a singer with three hit singles to her name, and as such some renown. Two days ago, she went in for some tests for abdominal issues to see if it is cancer. She will be getting the results today at 18:30h. She is certain that it will be a terminal cancer diagnosis, her mind fixated on that outcome and what it actually means. This belief affects how she approaches the day, from her encounters with friends and acquaintances to what she observes in total strangers around her. Happiness: Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers. He still loves his wife and wants to share his new greater happiness with her. The Creatures: 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. Lions Love (... and Lies) : It's the late spring 1968. Free-spirited Viva, Jerry and Jim as a threesome have entered into a relationship together living in a rented house in Los Angeles. While chronologically there, they are trying to figure out truly how to become adults as they treat their lives as one big theater production. They have as a house-guest Viva's friend, New York based independent filmmaker Shirley, who has come to town to make a movie about old time Hollywood. Her independence in the business and the studio system will try to come closer together as her business manager is negotiating studio funding, allowing her to use 'movie stars' apropos to the piece, without giving up creative control. These stories are set against the backdrop of the turbulent times, with the focus of that turbulence being the successful or failed assassination attempts against Robert F. Kennedy and Andy Warhol, as opposed to the continued bloodshed in Vietnam. The participants show that at times cannot be as committed to the project as the person at the helm, Agnès Varda. One Sings, the Other Doesn't: The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities. Vagabond: In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films. Jane B. for Agnes V.: 'I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap,' whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a woman, this time in a marvelously Expressionistic way. 'It's like an imaginary bio-pic,' says Varda. Jane, of course, is the famed singer ('Je t'aime ... Moi non plus'), actress (BLOW UP), fashion icon (the Hermes Birkin bag) and longtime muse to Serge Gainsbourg. As Varda implies, JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. abandons the traditional bio-pic format, favoring instead a freewheeling mix of gorgeous and unexpected fantasy sequences. In each, Jane inhabits a new character, playing a cat & mouse game with Varda as they explore the role of the Muse and the Artist, all the while showcasing the multifaceted nature of Birkin's talent. 'I'd like to be filmed as if I were transparent, anonymous, like everyone else,' says Birkin. But her wish to be a 'famous nobody' is impossible to achieve; Birkin is simply too magnificent, too mesmerizing. Here, Varda's signature mix of aesthetic innovation and generosity of emotion results in a surreal and captivating essay on Art, Fame, Love, Children and Staircases. For its first-ever U.S. theatrical release the film has been newly-restored from the original 35mm camera negative, overseen by director Varda herself. Kung-Fu Master!: Mary-Jane, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee with two daughters, Lucy and Lou asks, 'Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?' Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, small and brassy, but she sees a sensitive side. She contrives to spend time with him and lets him know she's available to him. He's on the cusp between child and man, alternating between playing a video game, Kung-Fu Master, where he tries to rescue Sylvia, and joining friends in bluff-talk about sexual exploits. As Lucy realizes what is happening, she's repulsed, but Mary-Jane, encouraged by her own mother, carries on. Is it love or jealousy of lost youth? Is there any way this can end well? Jacquot of Nantes: Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the 1930s. His father owns an automotive garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show: theatre, cinema, puppets. He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... an evocation of French filmmaker Jacques Demy's childhood and avocation for the cinema and musicals. One Hundred and One Nights: Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also, a line of movie stars comes to visit him, giving him back the pleasure of life, but amongst them, there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories, Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life, are told in parallel until they come together in the end, when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students. O Seasons, O Castles: The director takes us to a trip to the castles of the Loire; from the fortresses bold of the Middle-Ages-Chinon (which was destroyed by Richelieu) Langeais, Angers-to the exquisite Châteaux Renaissance (Chenonceaux: the Dames' castle, Azay-Le Rideau and its reflection in the river Indre, Cheverny and its gardens 'A la Française'), not forgetting the castles which came between such as Amboise and Blois. Varda ends her trip to the Loire in a less famous mysterious castle. Along the Coast: 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. Diary of a Pregnant Woman: A pregnant filmmaker takes us to rue Mouffetard, 'la Mouffe,' in the Latin Quarter of Paris for a mix of documentary footage and imagined scenes. Vignettes or chapters unfold - on the feeling of nature, on pregnancy, on anxiety, on desire, and so forth. Women shop at a vegetable market, their faces marked by care and poverty. We see young lovers, playful and innocent. Derelicts drink and sleep on sidewalks. A weary pregnant woman carries her shopping bags; later, she eats flowers. There are counterpoints of gritty realism and playful, near-surrealistic images. Political and artistic consciousnesses create a montage. The Fiancés of the Bridge 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. Hello Cubans: During her visit to Cuba in 1963, only four years after Fidel Castro came to power, director Agnès Varda decided to explore the post-revolution Cuban culture and society. As the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos didn't grant her permission to shoot a film, instead, filmmaker Agnès Varda returned home with thousands of pictures she took while on vacation. This delightful black-and-white composition, described by Varda as 'a mixture of socialism and cha-cha-cha', where the editing resembles a choreography, intermingles the photos with catchy Cuban rhythms while exploring the effects of the revolution on Cuba's people. Elsa the Rose: Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa's youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa. Uncle Yanco: While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed 'Yanco'. This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one. Black Panthers: A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America's attention. Women Reply: What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera. The Pleasure of Love in Iran: A couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran. Ulysse: Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier. The So-Called Caryatids: Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. 7 Rm., kit., ba…: A real estate agent tries to sell a 7-room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners. You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...: In 1986, the French Cinematheque completed its 50th anniversary and to celebrate its importance to cinema lovers through the years, the great Agnès Varda made this short tribute, narrated by Isabelle Adjani, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with classic film images also revolving around stairs. Ydessa, the Bears and etc...: Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled 'The living and the Artificial' (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto where the artist lives and interview her. In front of Agnes Varda's DV camera, Ydessa tells about the singularity of her artistic approach. She also expresses herself about the Holocaust, which both her parents survived. The 3 Buttons: 'Miss Jasmine. I have a package for you!' The 14-year-old girl with braces takes a break from milking the goat. Her local postman has delivered a surprise. She opens it up. Out floats a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. 'I am curious,' she says, and enters the folds of the dress. From here, Jasmine headstrong, a dreamer, a realist takes us on a modern anti-fairy tale through caves and stalagmites, streets and shop windows, obsessions and everyday empowerment.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 January, 2025.