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3rd(2001)



L¡¯Opera-Mouffe

Agnès VARDA

  • France
  • 1958
  • 17min
  • 35mm
  • black and white
  • Documentary

SYNOPSIS

This film was made while Varda was pregnant with her first daughter, as she visited the streets of La Mouffe on a daily basis and constructed the film utilizing footage taken during her visits. L¡¯Opera-Mouffe is divided into smaller segments entitled ¡®Lovers¡¯, ¡®Drunkenness¡¯ ¡®Holidays¡¯, ¡®Old Age¡¯, ¡®Craving¡¯, as it captures the process of life itself through metaphorical images and irrational symbolic representations, along with diversified introspection on absurdities of daily behavior. The result is an actualization by an expecting mother on the bleak nature of her everyday life, that life is in fact nothing but poverty and a process of aging. (Joo You-Shin)

PROGRAM NOTE

This film was made while Varda was pregnant with her first daughter, as she visited the streets of La Mouffe on a daily basis and constructed the film utilizing footage taken during her visits. L¡¯Opera-Mouffe is divided into smaller segments entitled ¡®Lovers¡¯, ¡®Drunkenness¡¯ ¡®Holidays¡¯, ¡®Old Age¡¯, ¡®Craving¡¯, as it captures the process of life itself through metaphorical images and irrational symbolic representations, along with diversified introspection on absurdities of daily behavior. The result is an actualization by an expecting mother on the bleak nature of her everyday life, that life is in fact nothing but poverty and a process of aging. (Joo You-Shin)

Director

  • Agnès VARDAAgnès VARDA

    Born in Ixelles, Brussels on May 30, 1928 and died on March 29, 2019.
    VARDA was an extraordinary artist who pioneered modern cinema through installation arts, photography, live action films, and documentaries. As the mother of the Nouvelle Vague, she is also known as a pioneer of female films not only in France but throughout the world. As an expressive feminist, VARDA is famous for her critical essays on documentary-like reality and her interests on everyday life, photography, and arts.

Credit

  • Cast Dorothee Blank, Antoine Bourseiller
  • Cinematography Sacha Vierny
  • Editor Janine Verneau
  • Music Georges Delerue