Container of (work): Visages villages (Motion picture) Ulysse (Motion picture : 1982) Salut les cubains. Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . .
Notes:
Title from disc label. Faces places: featuring Agnès Varda, JR. Salut les cubains: with Michel Piccoli. Ulysse: with Guy Bourdin. Issued in a boxed set entitled: The complete films of Agnès Varda. Digitally restored. Special features: Chance is the best assistant (codirectors Agnes Varda and JR discuss the making of Faces places); The beach cabin (outtake from Faces places); A visit from Mattheiu Chedid (codirectors Agnes Varda and JR discuss the music of Faces places with composer Matthieu Chedid); Trailer for Faces places; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Salut les cubains; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Ulysse; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . .; Une minute pour une image (a selection of photographs accompanied by commentary by intellectuals and artists - the filmmaker herself included - for French television).
Contents:
1.37:1). Faces places / Rosalie Varda présente un film de Agnès Varda et JR ; une co-production Ciné Tamaris, Social Animals, Rouge International, Arte France Cinéma, Arches Films (2004 : 42 min. ; surround ; 1.85:1) -- Salut les cubains (1964 : 29 min. ; mono ; 1.66:1) -- Ulysse (1982 : 22 min. ; mono ; 1.66:1) -- Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . . (2004 : 42 min. ; stereo ; 1.37:1).
Summary:
Faces place: Agnès Varda and street photographer JR crisscross rural France in their roving camera-mobile-- a truck that produces larger-than-life portraits of the people they meet, which are then pasted onto local walls. The pair encounter an array of farmers, former miners, dockworkers, and others whose stories form a collage of a country where meaningful traditions persist in the face of encroaching modernity. A detour-rich road movie, a charming intergenerational buddy film, and an ode to artisans of all stripes, the film finds Varda making new memories while revisiting old ones, yielding what is ultimately a bittersweet, puckishly profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of art, relationships, and life itself. Salut les cubains: A travelogue made from over four hundred still photographs taken during a trip to Cuba in the wake of its 1959 revolution. Through fluid montage, the people captured by Varda's camera come to playful, loving life. Ulysse: In this ruminative cross-pollination of film and photography, Agnès Varda uses a mysterious still image that she took in the late fifties-- of a nude man (the photographer Guy Bourdin, a friend of hers) and a toddler on a rocky beach, flanked by a dead goat with a swelling belly in the foreground-- as the springboard for a contemplation on the passing of time and the subjectivity of meaning in art. Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . .: Agnès Varda's lifelong interest in still portraiture informs this record of a provocative Munich exhibition by the artist Ydessa Hendeles that contemplates our need for nostalgia and comfort in a violent world through an assemblage of hundreds of antique photographs of people and their teddy bears.
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