Agnés Varda
The Mother of the Nouvelle Vague
Just before her passing in 2019, The Criterion Collection with her involvement released her complete films, in one of the finest Blu-ray sets period. No commentaries though. But what a beaut!!
Tonight i'm watching Daguerrotypes, which focuses on shop owners near where she lived, as she wanted to be with her newborn child at the time, late 70's. Her love of ordinary people is evident in all her films, and here is no different. A tangible sense of ordinariness, shot and put together with loving care.
She was at heart a documentarist, but could film one hell of a story too, as one can see in .... [b]VAGABOND[/b] her greatest film imo, which i still haven't seen from this set!!
Next film maybe tonight will be her feminist musical One Sings, the Other Doesn't, a charming story of friendship between 2 women. ... One of these days i gotta write something a bit more worthy of this great filmmaker, the importance of her work and how she was as a human being. She is just absolutely one of a kind, fierce and uncompromising, and kind, humane and gentle. Her later works were like career retrospectives, some i've yet to see like Faces Places, where she worked with a visual artist known as JR, (my initials btw), and there's a work in 4 or 6 parts of around 300 minutes. LOTS to discover, to treasure, it is a treasure everyone to have all the works of a director in one package.
Back to Dageurrotypes now, have a good night/day folks, i spent practically all day here, now i must give myself unto cinema, please understand ;) ×××
Just before her passing in 2019, The Criterion Collection with her involvement released her complete films, in one of the finest Blu-ray sets period. No commentaries though. But what a beaut!!
Tonight i'm watching Daguerrotypes, which focuses on shop owners near where she lived, as she wanted to be with her newborn child at the time, late 70's. Her love of ordinary people is evident in all her films, and here is no different. A tangible sense of ordinariness, shot and put together with loving care.
She was at heart a documentarist, but could film one hell of a story too, as one can see in .... [b]VAGABOND[/b] her greatest film imo, which i still haven't seen from this set!!
Next film maybe tonight will be her feminist musical One Sings, the Other Doesn't, a charming story of friendship between 2 women. ... One of these days i gotta write something a bit more worthy of this great filmmaker, the importance of her work and how she was as a human being. She is just absolutely one of a kind, fierce and uncompromising, and kind, humane and gentle. Her later works were like career retrospectives, some i've yet to see like Faces Places, where she worked with a visual artist known as JR, (my initials btw), and there's a work in 4 or 6 parts of around 300 minutes. LOTS to discover, to treasure, it is a treasure everyone to have all the works of a director in one package.
Back to Dageurrotypes now, have a good night/day folks, i spent practically all day here, now i must give myself unto cinema, please understand ;) ×××
