L'une chante, l'autre pas / Ciné Tamaris présente ; un film écrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda ; une coproduction, Ciné Tamaris, Société française de production, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Contrechamp, Paradis film, Population Film.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (30 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 16 cm) and 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Women are naturally creative: Agnès Varda. Réponse de femmes. Plaisir d'amour en Iran.
Notes:
Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Restored by Ciné Tamaris in 2014, with color grading supervised by Agnès Varda. 1.66:1 aspect ratio. Special features: New 2K digital restoration; Women are naturally creative: Agnès Varda, a 1977 documentary directed by Katja Raganelli, featuring an interview with Varda shot during the making of the film, plus on-set interviews with actors Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard ; Response de femmes, a 1975 short film by Varda, on the question "What is a woman?"; Plaisir d'amour en Iran, a 1976 short film by Varda, starring Mairesse and Ali Raffi; trailer; in booklet, an essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from the film's original press book. Therese Liotard, Valerie Mairesse, Ali Raffi, Robert Dadiès, Francis Lemaire, Jean-Pierre Pellegrin.
Summary:
In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by the women's liberation movement. A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, this is one of Agnès Varda's warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages.
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