What should we do when we are ninety? I'm afraid it's a luxury to get up from a wheelchair, but if I told you that there was a ninety-year-old who was still going to the nightclub, traveling around and making movies, would you believe it?
The 89-year-old director I want to talk about today still maintains a pure heart, adheres to the "New Wave", carries a video camera, and goes to the street to shoot a movie is the famous director Agnès Varda.
Friends who love to watch movies and understand the history of world cinema should have heard the name of "Father of the New Wave" Andre Bazan. Have you heard of "New Wave Grandmother"?
Yes, she is Varda, she was a famous French photographer, in 1954 she wrote and directed her first work "Short Corner Love Affair", its unique narrative structure and low-cost production method is regarded as the precursor of the French New Wave.
The maverick grandma also danced very well, and invited Angelina Jolie to dance with her at her Oscar Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Vadar's casual passion is also reflected in her films, which have remained unchanged over the years, and her passion for films is difficult for many people today to match.
Her films have always contained a passion and attention to life, sometimes with an experimental tendency, a series of narrative explorations that are both soft, dashing, and bold.
From the beginning, she was an artist who was constantly pushing outwards, constantly absorbing the people and things she encountered, integrating them into a new possibility.
In her artistic career, she has always adhered to the uniqueness of art. It has never changed in decades, and from "Short Corner Love Affair" to the recent "Face, Village", her unique cognition and expressiveness of film art have remained almost unchanged.
No matter how disturbed the outside world is, she always insists on shooting and interpreting the stories of ordinary people with a pure heart, and with the passage of time, her film language has become more and more perfect, and there are more warm and peaceful flavors.
The movie "Face, Village" is a film made by director Vadal at the age of 89, and its reputation is explosive, and now it has reached a score of 9.2 on Douban.
The film has no narrative threads but Vadar and street artist Jr drive JR's pickup truck through French villages, which both serve as a photography room and a printing room for making oversized stickers.
Along the way, they photographed the people they encountered, mostly workers, and then painted poster-sized portraits on the walls of houses and factories.
An important part of this street art is the involvement of the subjects, including waitresses, shepherds, postmen and dock workers' wives, all of whom are involved in the film.
When these people see their huge pictures appear on the walls, they often burst into tears of excitement, they have never received such attention, except for the stars and great people, whose photos can be put on the building.
These people seem to be ordinary people, but their ordinary lives have their own extraordinary. Like the farmer below, other farmers cut off their horns in order to prevent the goats from fighting and causing damage.
The farmer didn't do that, and the reason she gave was that people fight too, and what was wrong with the goats? Respect for animals means keeping them as they are.
These ordinary people have their own simple persistence, and it is precisely this unique thought and persistence that makes their personality appear more noble.
At the end of the film, our mushroom-headed grandmother takes a train to Switzerland, intending to see her old friend Godard, whom she has not seen for five years, and the reunion of two new wave souls makes the film even more exciting.
What's the thing you've stuck with all your life? If not, it is not too late to start now, and the road to pursuing dreams with a pure heart will never appear dim because of age, but will become more brilliant.