March 25, 2014 (Series 28: 8) Agnès Varda, SANS TOIT NI LOI/VAGABOND (1985, 105 Minutes)
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March 25, 2014 (Series 28: 8) Agnès Varda, SANS TOIT NI LOI/VAGABOND (1985, 105 minutes) Directed by Agnès Varda Music by Joanna Bruzdowicz Cinematography by Patrick Blossier Sandrine Bonnaire ... Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi Setti Ramdane ... le marocaine qui la trouve Agnès Varda (director) (b. Arlette Varda, May 30, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium) has directed 50 films and television shows, most of which she also wrote and some of which she produced and edited. Among them are 2011 “Agnès de ci de là Varda” (TV Series documentary—5 episodes), 2008 The Beaches of Agnès (Documentary), 2006 Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier (Documentary), 2004 Cinévardaphoto (Documentary), 2002 Homage to Zgougou the Cat (Video documentary short), 2002 The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (Documentary), 2000 Short Seduction 4 (Video), 2000 The Gleaners & I (Documentary), 1995 L'univers de Jacques Demy (Documentary), 1995 One Joanna Bruzdowicz (music) (b. May 17, 1943 in Warsaw, Hundred and One Nights, 1991 Jacquot de Nantes, 1988 Jane B. Mazowieckie, Poland) composed music for 21 films and for Agnes V., 1988 Le petit amour, 1985 The Story of an Old television shows, among them 2011 Battle for Britain (Short), Lady (Short), 1985 Vagabond, 1984 The So-called Caryatids 2010 “P.O.V.” (TV Series documentary), 2009 I Forgot to Tell (Documentary short), 1982 Ulysse (Short), 1981 Mur murs You, 2009 The Entrepreneur (Documentary), 2008 The Beaches (Documentary), 1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn't, 1976 Plaisir of Agnès (Documentary), 2008 Testudo (Short), 2005 Grey Souls, d'amour en Iran (Short), 1975 Women Reply (Documentary 2003 Le lion volatil (Short), 2002 The Gleaners and I: Two Years short), 1970 “Nausicaa” (TV Movie), 1967 Oncle Yanco (Short), Later (Documentary), 2000 The Gleaners & I (Documentary), 1967 Far from Vietnam (Documentary), 1966 The Creatures, 1997 An Air So Pure, 1996 “L'uomo che ho ucciso” (TV Movie), 1965 Le Bonheur, 1963 Salut les Cubains (Documentary short), 1991 Jacquot de Nantes, 1987-1989 “Les enquêtes du 1962 Cleo from 5 to 7, 1958 Diary of a Pregnant Woman (Short), commissaire Maigret” (TV Series), 1988 “Les cinq dernières 1958 O saisons, ô châteaux (Documentary short), and 1955 La minutes” (TV Series), 1988 Le petit amour, 1987 Manuela's Pointe Courte. She has been, as well, the cinematographer on 9 Loves, 1985 “Stahlkammer Zürich” (TV Series), 1985 Vagabond, films and TV shows—2011 “Agnès de ci de là Varda” (TV 1983 “Tante Blandine” (TV Movie), and 1980 Bobo la tête. Series documentary), 2010 “P.O.V.” (TV Series documentary), 2008 The Beaches of Agnès (Documentary), 2005 Les dites Patrick Blossier (cinematographer) (b. September 23, 1949 in cariatides bis (Video documentary short), 2002 The Gleaners Paris, France) has been the cinematographer for 80 films and TV and I: Two Years Later (Documentary), 2000 The Gleaners & I shows, including 2014 Les gazelles, 2012 “The Returned” (TV (Documentary), 1993 Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans Series—8 episodes), 2012 “Mafiosa” (TV Series—8 episodes), (Documentary), 1968 Huey (Documentary short), 1963 Salut les 2011 The Monk, 2009 The Hedgehog, 2008 Sunny et l'éléphant, Cubains (Documentary short). 2008 The Girl from Monaco, 2007 Those Who Remain, 2006 Days of Glory, 2005 La moustache, 2005 The Ax, 2004 The Light, 2004 Red Lights, 2003 Father and Sons, 2000 Fidelity, Varda—VAGABOND—2 1999 Le derrière, 1997 The Comedian, 1996 Le bel été 1914, switching to the Vaugirard school of photography. In 1951, when 1994 Loin des barbares, 1993 The Little Apocalypse, 1991 Jean Vilar (another native of Sète) launched the Théåtre National Octavio, 1991 Mon Pere Ce Heros, 1990 Docteur Petiot, 1990 Populaire, he hired Varda as the TNP’s official photographer, a La vengeance d'une femme, 1989 My Nights Are More Beautiful post she retained for ten years. As the theatre became better Than Your Days, 1988 Betrayed, 1987 Sorceress, 1987 Miss known, so too did her photographs, and she began to receive Mona, 1986 Jour et nuit, 1985 Vagabond, 1983 Autour du mur photo-journalistic assignments that took her all over France and (Documentary), 1982 The Roaring Forties, 1981 Notre fille, and to Germany, England, and elsewhere. 1976 Pousse-pousse. At this point, although some of her Parisian friends were interested or involved in filmmaking, Varda knew little about cinema and says she had seen no more than twenty movies by the time she was twenty-five. In this state of ignorance she wrote her first scenario, “just the way a person writes his first book. When I’d finished writing it, I thought to myself: “I’d like to shoot that script,’ and so some friends and I formed a cooperative to make it.” Even then, she says, she “had the feeling…that the cinema was not free, above all in its form, and that annoyed me. I wanted to make a film exactly as one writes a novel.” For her, the process of “finding my way”—as a woman above all—was instinctive: “Because I am not at all a theoretician of feminism, I did all that—my photos, my craft, my film, my life—on my terms, my own terms, and not to do it like a man, not like a man.” Sandrine Bonnaire ... Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi (b. May La Pointe Courte (1955) is a full-length feature set in 31, 1967 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France) appeared the small fishing village of that name in the south of France, not in 56 films and TV shows, among them 2014 “Rouge sang” (TV far from Sète, and telling two separate stories. One concerns the Movie) (filming), 2014 Soul of a Spy (filming), 2014 Salaud on struggle of the local fishermen (who are played by themselves) t'aime (post-production), 2013 Adieu Paris, 2013 “La balade de against the economic domination of the big combines; the other Lucie” (TV Movie), 2011 “Signature” (TV Series—6 episodes), is about a young man (Philippe Noiret)who comes home with his 2008 A Simple Heart, 2007 Could This Be Love?, 2004 The Parisian wife (Sylvia Monfort) in a last attempt to save their Light, 2004 The Giraffe's Neck, 2004 Intimate Strangers, 2003 failing marriage. The two stories unfold side by side, Resistance, 2002 Femme Fatale, 1999 The Color of Lies, 1998 counterpointing each other but never merging. It is significant Voleur de vie, 1998 Secret Defense, 1996 Never Ever, 1995 that Varda derives this structure not from the cinema but from Secrets Shared with a Stranger, 1995 One Hundred and One literature—from William Faulkner’s The Wild Palms, which is Nights, 1994 Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons, 1994 Jeanne la made up of two stories printed in alternate chapters. Pucelle I - Les batailles, 1990 Towards Evening, 1989 Peaux de Varda says: “I tried to establish the relationship between vaches, 1988 A Few Days with Me, 1987 Les innocents, 1987 people and things. The hero’s theme is wood: his father was a Under the Sun of Satan, 1986 La puritaine, 1985 Vagabond, marine carpenter. Wood is his natural element. He is most 1985 Police, 1985 Le meilleur de la vie, 1984 Tir à vue, and himself within the wooden frame of a boat—which is both matrix 1983 À Nos Amours. and cradle. For the heroine, the theme is iron: winch, rails, train. They belong in different realms: and this is their key Setti Ramdane ... le marocaine qui la trouve has appeared in problem….Fishing implements—utilitarian objects to the only 1 film—1985 Vagabond. fishermen—are to this couple instruments of death, black corrosive. Thus the décor is by turns positive for the fishing Agnès Varda, From World Film Directors, Volume II, Edited community and menacing for the leading characters, spiked with by John Wakeman. The H. W. Wilson Co, NY, 1988 torture. For them, it is as though things were charged with French director and scenarist, was born in Ixelles, Belgium, the psychoanalytic purpose: at the beginning of the film, when their daughter of Eugène Jean Varda, an engineer, and the former isolation is at its height, objects are of the first importance. The Christiane Pasquet. Her mother came from Sète, a small seaport couple move in a world of coldness. As the film nears its end, so in the south of France near Montpellier, and during the war the this world changes and things give way to people.” family lived there on a boat. After attending the Collège de Sète, The film also embodies the concept of verfremdung, Varda completed her education at the Lycée Victor-Duroy in usually translated as “alienation”—a dramatic theory and Paris and at the Sorbonne, where she received a bachelor’s technique of which Brecht is the most famous exponent. It degree in literature. The move to Paris, she recalls, was “truly signifies a deliberate attempt to distance the spectator from what excruciating” and left her with “a frightful memory of my arrival he being shown so that, instead of identifying emotionally with in this grey, inhuman, sad city.” Classes at the Sorbonne struck the protagonist to the point where he “loses himself” in the play, her as “stupid, antiquated, abstract, scandalously unsuited for the he retains his objectivity and his critical faculties. Varda lofty needs one had at that age,” while her fellow students were introduces this element my making the young man and his wife sufficiently unfriendly that she stayed close to acquaintances abstract figures, nameless and without individuality, speaking a from Sète for some time. She at first intended to become a non-naturalistic and literary kind of dialogue. She wrote this museum curator and studied at the École du Louvre before dialogue, she says, “with a desire for complication of the style Varda—VAGABOND—3 and simplification of the characters.