4 by Agn?s Varda (La Pointe Courte, Cl?o from 5 to 7, Le bonheur, Vagabond) - Criterion Collection
by Agnes Varda
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Director: Agnes VardaBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 345 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of 4 by Agn?s Varda (La Pointe Courte, Cl?o from 5 to 7, Le bonheur, Vagabond) - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Fantastic box
Summary: 5 Stars
If You like Varda, or the french new wave, or french film, then this box is well worth buying. My favourite films of the four are Cleo and Le Bonheur. Lots of extra material, and the box is well designed.
Summary of 4 by Agn?s Varda (La Pointe Courte, Cl?o from 5 to 7, Le bonheur, Vagabond) - Criterion Collection
Agnes Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced thought-provoking films of the past fifty years. She is widely believed to have presaged the French new wave with her first film La Pointe Courte long before creating one of the movement's benchmarks Cleo from 5 to 7. Later with Le bonheur and Vagabond Varda further shook up art-house audiences challenging bourgeois codes with her inscrutable characters and effortlessly beautiful compositions and editing. Now working largely as a documentarian Varda remains one of the essential cinematic poets of our time and a true visionary.Includes:La Point Courte (1954) 80 min.Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 89 min.Le Bonheur (1964) 80 min.Vagabond (1985) 105 min.System Requirements:LENGTH: 345 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/FRENCH Rating: NR UPC: 715515025928 Manufacturer No: CC1730DDVD4 by Agnes Varda is one of Criterion Collection's finest releases, so packed is it with supplementary material. Each of the four films included in the set have illuminating critical essay accompaniments and at least three additional bits on their prospective DVDs ranging from the "remembrances" of cast and crew to amazing interviews with Varda from various decades. Of course, the films are in themselves quite extraordinary, but this package collects together so much enlightening footage and reading that to comb through it is like taking a Varda history class. It is difficult to choose favorites amongst the four films included: La Pointe Courte (1956), Cl?o from 5 to 7 (1962), Le Bonheur (1965), and Vagabond (1985). Each illustrates rigorous experimental challenges, and each film succeeds according to its own set of criteria. Perhaps the most exciting two films in the set, simply because fewer viewers may have seen them, are La Pointe Courte and Le Bonheur. La Pointe Courte, Varda's first film and the film attributed to launching the French New Wave, stars Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret who bring a stark formalism to the story of their conflicted love in a scenic seaside village. Shot in high contrast black and white, La Pointe Courte is filled with odd visual and sonic edits that lend this film an otherworldly, Carl Dreyer-esque quality though it points to Varda's future directing tact, namely making films that scrutinize tragic personal relationships with deep compassion and zeal. Le Bonheur, filmed in a vivid primary color palette, similarly features a married couple, Fran?ois (Jean-Claude Drouot) and Therese (Claire Drouot), who experience both bliss and utter sadness within the film's timeframe. In this case, the sense of isolation is replaced by an overload of happiness, namely when Fran?ois cheats on his wife with a young postal worker (Marie-France Boyer) and finds himself so happy that the viewer suspects it cannot last.
The two abovementioned films contextualize Cl?o from 5 to 7 and Vagabond, both films starring strong females who face life with bravery and finesse. Filmed in "real-time," Cl?o from 5 to 7 stars a young pop singer (Corinne Marchand) whose wit and sex appeal carry her through a fearful day, while Vagabond recounts the end of ravishing Mona's (Sandrine Bonnaire), life as a vagrant in search of freedom. Seeing La Pointe Courte, for example, foreshadows Varda's breakthrough casting of non-actors in Vagabond. Filmic experiments and acting experiments abound in each film. On the whole, it becomes clear that each crew member on a Varda film enters a new artistic world forged by this auteur, aimed at exploring daily life to uncover those moments encompassing sadness, hope, and beauty with grace, character, and exquisite technique. --Trinie Dalton
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