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The Shenzhen Broadway Film Center will open a retrospective exhibition of Varda and Demi from June 25 to July 7. Varda's films are full of struggle and love for life, Demy's colorful song and dance films are gorgeous but also soft, and their love and life together deserve to be understood by more people.
The theme of this film festival is "Happy Beach Film Life", which is a tribute to "love".
The long-awaited "Happy Beach Movie Life: Varda and Demi Film Retrospective" was finally set from June 25 to July 7.
I hope that in the next few days, everyone can walk into the Shenzhen Broadway Film Center and feel a visual carnival and a deep feeling.
Happy Beach Movie Life
the beaches, the movies
Retrospective of Varda and Demi films
Varda & Demy
Opening
Opening
25（Tue.）-6-2019
Screening
Duration
28（Fri.）-6——7（Sun.）-7
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Film list of the film festival
The fallen woman of the end of the world
Without a roof or law(法)/ Vagabond (英)
Directed by Agnès Varda
Screenwriter Agnès Varda
Starring Sandrina Bonaire
Film introduction
One morning in a village trench, a zombie corpse of a stray woman appeared.
The dead girl, named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), once camped around with a large bag on her back, living in a house with a downcast tramp, smoking and sleeping together. A herding couple who had given her land and shelter in the hope that she would strive to live a peaceful and steady life. But Mona never stopped wandering, hitchhiking on the road to meet botanists, workers who cut vine branches, etc. But no one knows where Mona's wanderings will lead her until her death is witnessed.
BC recommended
Starring the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire, the film is an important film for Varda to explore the freedom of women's identity from the perspective of the individual, and one of Varda's most strident films. The film has an oil-like textured beginning and a classical-style soundtrack, and Varda uses 13 pushes throughout the film, following the footsteps of the heroine while asking affectionately: For women, what is "freedom"?
Douban 8.3
IMbd7.8
Rotten Tomatoes 100%
Awards
1985 42nd Venice Film Festival Main Competition Golden Lion Award
1985 42nd Venice Film Festival Fabisi Prize (International Federation of Film Critics Award) Competition Unit Fabisi Prize
Jacques Demi of Nantes
Jacquôt de Nantes(法)/ Jacquot
Starring Philippe Malone / Eduard Jobord / Laurent Monnier
The film is a biography of Varda's husband Demi.
Jacques Demi was a child in the late 1930s, his father owned a garage and his mother, a hairdresser, and Demi entered technical school under duress from his father. However, he loved singing and watching movies, fascinated by all types of performances, and he bought a camera to shoot his first amateur film. The film takes a look at Demi's childhood and career from the perspective of his closest confidant.
This film is Varda's work for the dying Demy, is a love letter from Varda to Defan, and it is also Varda's most affectionate work. Varda distinguishes the blandness and brightness of life in black and white and color, blending in a visual and aesthetic sense, and infiltrating the love for Jacques with a simple lens.
This film is also Varda's analysis of the origin and spiritual world of Demi's films, and his experiences are integrated into the film. In the war-torn era, cinemas, puppet shows, phonographs, people who kept singing, Varda skillfully interspersed the simple form of life with Demi's exquisite ideals, this idea is very unique.
Douban 9.0
IMbd 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes 80%
The beaches of Agnès
Les plages d’Agnès （法）/ The Beaches of Agnès（英）
Starring Agnès Varda / Jane Birkin / Charlotte Gainsbuch / Jacques Demi / Zalman King
"Agnès's Beach" is a documentary about his film life directed by Varda and starring with many friends before his death. Varda uses reconstructive techniques to recreate major events in her life with fragments from her and her husband Demi's films. The film is about human nature, not the film.
This is the eightieth year of Agnès Varda, who celebrated her birthday with the warm and humorous film "Agnès's Beach", which is also a good story in the history of cinema. We can see that Varda had been living a carefree life until Demi's death.
Douban 8.9
IMbd 8.0
Rotten Tomatoes 96%
22nd European Film Awards 2009 Best Documentary (Nominated)
Face, village
Visages villages（法）/ Faces Places（英）
Directed by Agnès Varda / Jean Genet
Screenwriter Agnès Varda / Jean Genet
Starring Agnès Varda / Jean Genet
French photographer and visual artist JR likes to take pictures of ordinary workers from all walks of life, and then use special means to enlarge the photos into huge pictures, showing in the field works that are closely related to the work of the workers, thus awakening the self-awareness of the workers. Varda recognized the power of JR's work and the initiative of the image: static works can only claim meaning, while dynamic photography can present the real state of mind of ordinary people on the screen.
After paying attention to each other for a long time, the two began to cooperate, driving a small van equipped with photographic equipment and able to enlarge and print photos, without a clear plan and without strict routes, casually traveling through the French countryside, visiting and photographing some interesting people, and then enlarging their photos and posting them on tall buildings.
Varda believes in contingency and is eager to use his imagination. In the shooting, they insisted on the principle that all subjects were workers and their living conditions, because this may reflect the essential characteristics of society.
The most heartwarming documentary of 2017, this film chronicles Varda and photographic artist JR driving across France to take huge artistic photographs of ordinary people.
Strictly speaking, the record is only one of the main attributes of this film, and the 88-year-old Varda maintains the innocence and childlike innocence of a girl, and she wanders lightly and cheerfully in the french countryside fields, encountering faces that let us see more possibilities in life.
IMbd 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes 99%
2018 90th Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature (Nominated)
52nd National Film Critics Association Awards for Best Documentary
52nd National Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)
2017 43rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards For Best Documentary
Agnès on Varda
Varda by Agnès(法)/ Varda by Agnès (英)
Starring Agnès Varda
Agnès on Varda records Varda's film lectures in various places. In the film, Varda not only reviews her most famous works, such as "Cleo at Five to Seven", "Happiness", "The Fallen Woman at the End of the World", etc., but also tells about works that are not familiar to the audience, such as "The Whisper of the Wall", "Record Liar", "Dagre Street Style", etc. Through the memories and free talk of these works, Varda selflessly shared her inspiration and artistic creation process with the audience, and also showed her rich, cute and sensitive inner world.
This is the farewell work of Varda's film career, and it is also the farewell work of her life. It is not only a film lesson, a compilation of lectures, and a tour of works by Varda, but also a life review, a long talk, a gift for my 90s.
Douban 9.2
IMbd 7.5
Lola
Lola (French/English)
Directed by Jacques Demi
Screenwriter Jacques Demi
Starring Anouque Aimé / Mark Michelle / Jacques Aldon
The film is Jacques Demi's feature-length debut, a song and dance film without songs.
It is a love story that takes place in Nantes, France, emerging in waves of longing and lust. The heroine, Lola (Anouk Aimée), with her son, makes a living by singing and dancing. In order to wait for the return of her long-lost lover, she abandons the pursuit of young Roland. On the seashore of this small town, Lola left behind her beauty, persistence, wit, and obsession.
As Demy's feature-length debut, Lola also laid the foundation for Demi's later gorgeous song and dance films, where we will first see Demy's delicate and vivid description of love. More importantly, the heroine of this film, Lola, will become an important heroine of demi's film "Love Universe" and appear in other love movies.
In addition, due to the influence of World War II, the film has a conflict between French culture and American culture, and the image of the heroine Lola is often compared with Marilyn Monroe by the audience.
Douban 7.9
Umbrellas in Cherbourg
Les parapluies de Cherbourg （法）/The Umbrellas of Cherbourg （英）
Starring Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnovo / Anne Vernon / Mark Michel / Ellen Farne
Julie (Catherine Deneuve), a 17-year-old girl, is the daughter of the lady of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg, France; 20-year-old Chi (Nino Castelnuovo) is an employee of an auto repair shop and lives with his aunt and aunt's adopted daughter Madeleine (Ellen Farner). Julie and Odd are a couple, but their relationship has been blocked by Julie's mother. The Algerian War broke out, and Qi was forced to go to the front for two years of military service. The night before the parting, the two had a relationship. In the days of separation, Julie rarely received letters from Odd, and she began to doubt his sincerity. With the help of her mother, she is pregnant and marries Roland (Marc Michel), a Parisian jeweler who has been chasing her for a long time. Two years later, Qi returns to Cherbourg after completing his military service, trying to find his love for Julie, but finds that everything has long been human...
One of the most beautiful titles in film history is "The Umbrella of Cherbourg". This film can be called Demi's revolutionary film, he is extremely romantic in color, transcending realism, and allowing music to dive into daily life. Not only did it win the Palme d'Or, it was nominated for an Academy Award, and it has since been mentioned countless times in film history. After being re-homaged by the Hollywood movie "Philharmonic City" in 2016, it triggered a new round of musical revelry.
Douban 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes 98%
1966 38th Academy Awards Best Original Screenplay (Nominated)
1966 38th Academy Awards Best Soundtrack (Nominated)
1966 38th Academy Awards Best Original Song (Nominated)
1964 17th Cannes Film Festival Main Competition Palme d'Or
1964 Grand Prix technical at the 17th Cannes Film Festival
1964 17th Cannes Film Festival OCCI Award for the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit
Willow flowers
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort （法）/ The Young Girls of Rochefort（英）
Starring Catherine Deneuve / Georges Chakins / François Dole / Jacques Behan / Jacques Riberoller / Jean Kelly
Dieffen (Catherine Deneuve) and Suran (Françoise Dorléac) are two sisters who are dependent on each other, one redhead, one blonde, one good at dancing, and the other with a natural singing voice. The Summer Carnival is approaching, and in a gradually warm atmosphere, Diffin and Suran also have their own tasks in the carnival.
The dealer Gilliam (Jacques Riberolles) admires Dieffen's beauty, but Diffin has already secretly promised the young painter Who painted her portrait, Maisanth (Jacques Jacques Perrin), at the same time, Suran meets a young man named Miller (Gene Kelly), and the two are very happy with each other. What Suran did not expect was that the Miller in front of her was the composer she had been searching for fruitlessly, and she had been hoping that Miller would read a concerto she had written.
The film can be described as an upgraded version of "Cherbourg's Umbrella" in terms of color use and song and dance choreography, and it is also the pinnacle of Demi's film career, and Varda also participated in the filming and production of the film. Varda's open natural scenes and bright light set the film apart from the American song and dance films of the 60s. And Demi's use of color has been brought to the extreme, restoring the inner French town style and romantic intoxicating.
Douban 8.0
IMbd 7.7
1969 41st Academy Awards Best Soundtrack for Song and Dance (Nominated)
Donkey skin princess
Donkey Skin (英)
Starring Catherine Deneuve / Jean Mare / Jacques Behan / Michelin Presley / Defiin Serrigue
The film is based on a fairy tale novel written by Charles Perrault, the author of the 17th-century Cinderella. The absurd king wants to marry his daughter, and with the help of the fairy, the beautiful princess (Catherine Deneuve) disguises herself in donkey skin and escapes... It could also be said that this is another version of Cinderella.
Similar to Demi's masterpiece The Umbrella of Cherbourg, the film's beautiful cinematography, ornate costumes, engaging soundtrack and modern humor give this fairytale song and dance film a poetic charm.
The film was shot in the late 1960s, but the dreamlike set aesthetic and mesmerizing style of dialogue created the quirkiness and splendor of French cinema. There will never be a princess more beautiful than Catherine Deneuve.
After World War II, Europe began a long reconstruction, and Demi used dreamy scenes and classic music to leave such a naïve fairy tale with a long period of devastation.
Douban 7.1
IMbd 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes 88%
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Film festival scheduling
All films from this festival will be screened at the Dolby Atmos Hall, so don't miss this audiovisual feast!!
fare
Membership price is 55 yuan / Zhang Broadway Studios APP 65 yuan / Zhang
Other ticket purchase platforms 80 yuan / ticket
Package rules
The price of the package ticket is 55 yuan per ticket
Purchase 4 or more different tickets for this festival to enjoy the package price.
(Package tickets must be purchased on site)
*There are several films at the festival that require technical processing as follows:
"Fallen Woman" will have three shots that need to be technically processed;
"The Beach of Agnès" will have multiple shots that need to be technically processed;
"Agnès on Varda" will have multiple shots that need to be technically processed;
Jacques Demi of Nantes will have two shots that will require technical processing.
*Please understand that the above technical treatment will cause inconvenience to you during the viewing process!
Thematic exhibitions
"Varda and Demy's Happy Courtyard"
Exhibition venue: Shenzhen Broadway Film Center lobby
Opening hours: During the Varda & Demi Film Festival, it is open all day
Cost: Free
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Venue: bc+ Space (within Kubrick)
Opening hours: 18:00-20:00 during the festival
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