Agnes Varda In California - Eclipse Series 43 - Criterion Collection

The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works in the United States. After temporarily relocating to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, Varda, inspired by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, created three works that use documentary and fiction in various ways. She returned a decade later, and made two other fascinating portraits of outsiderness. Her five revealing, entertaining California films, encompassing shorts and features, are collected in this set, which demonstrates that Varda was as deft an artist in unfamiliar terrain as she was on her own turf.

Collectors Set Includes:

UNCLE YANCO

In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history.

BLACK PANTHERS

Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton

LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES)

Agnès Varda goes to Los Angeles, taking New York counterculture with her. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men delight in one anothers bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics.

MUR MURS

After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city.

DOCUMENTEUR

Documenteur is a small-scale fiction about a divorced mother and her child (played by Agnès Vardas own son) leading a quiet existence on L.A.s margins.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 26 februari, 2016