Stéphane Krausz

Four couples are getting married. They come from very different environments, and follow different customs and rituals. Marion and Jean, Catholics, will celebrate their wedding at the Chartres Cathedral. Natacha and Mike, in their thirties, want to get married according to the Jewish tradition. Sarah and Ousseynou are Muslims. She is of Moroccan origin, he is of Senegalese origin. Both dream of celebrating a wedding worthy of the Thousand and One Nights. Sonia and Stéphane have already been married and each has two children. Unable to remarry religiously in church, they go for a secular wedding in a casino.

Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects.

What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.

Uma pequena aventura de três personagens: Clarisse, aprendiz de vidente; Lazare, que trabalha nas catacumbas parisienses; e o leão, uma estátua de bronze no Denfert-Rochereau (no 14º arrondissement). Clarisse e Laraze se encontram diariamente, mas um dia Lazare desaparece – e o leão também.

Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film’s subjects.

A partir de um célebre quadro de Millet, o filme de Agnès Varda é um olhar sobre a persistência na sociedade contemporânea dos respigadores, aqueles que vivem da recuperação de coisas (detritos, sobras) que os outros não querem ou deixam para trás. A respigadora, nesse sentido é Agnès Varda, que experimentando pela primeira vez uma pequena câmara digital, se quer assumir como uma "recuperadora" das imagens que os outros não querem ver nem fazer, e que portanto deixam para trás.

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost” refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotected UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today’s Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. (jedensvet.cz)

Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who persuades her to move into his apartment. He soon takes control over Sandrine's life, organizing erotic rendezvous for her, taking her to her clients and waiting for her until she is through with her task.

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.