Varda

This is a portrait-report about the painter Jean Varda. In the aquatik suburbs of San Francisco, intellectual center and bohemia's heart, he sails with a latin boat and paints celestial and byzantine cities,since he is greek. Nevertheless, he is involved in young american movements, hippies and drop outs come to see him in his houseboat. How I discovered my American Uncle and how marvelous is the man.
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Un corto sobre un viejo pintor (tío de Agnès Varda) que vive en un barco con sus amigos hippies en Sausalito.
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Un portrait-reportage du peintre Yanco Varda, l'oncle de la réalisatrice vivant dans la baie de San Francisco.

The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works in the United States. After temporarily relocating to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, Varda, inspired by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, created three works that use documentary and fiction in various ways. She returned a decade later, and made two other fascinating portraits of outsiderness. Her five revealing, entertaining California films, encompassing shorts and features, are collected in this set, which demonstrates that Varda was as deft an artist in unfamiliar terrain as she was on her own turf.

A pregnant filmmaker takes us to rue Mouffetard, "la Mouffe," in the Latin Quarter of Paris for a mix of documentary footage and imagined scenes. Vignettes or chapters unfold - on the feeling of nature, on pregnancy, on anxiety, on desire, and so forth.
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Detrás del Panthéon, en París, entre las iglesias de St-Etienne-du-Mont y St-Médard, la calle Mouffetard atraviesa un barrio al que da nombre: la Mouffe. L'Opéra-Mouffe es el cuaderno de notas de una mujer embarazada en ese barrio de la calle Mouffetard.
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Derrière le Panthéon, à Paris, entre les églises St-Etienne-du-Mont et St-Médard, la rue Mouffetard traverse un quartier auquel elle a prêté son nom = la Mouffe… L'Opéra-Mouffe est le carnet de notes d'une femme enceinte dans ce quartier de la rue Mouffetard.

For "Ulysses," Varda grants herself the unusual screen credit of cinécrit, but the écriture in question is actually the titular photograph she took on a beach in 1954.
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Un análisis meditado e imaginativo de los significados de las imágenes: mitológico, alegórico, histórico y personal.
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Au bord de la mer, une chèvre, un enfant et un homme. C'est une photographie faite par Agnès Varda en 1954: la chèvre est morte, l'enfant s'appelle Ulysse et l'homme est nu.