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Summary:

Faces place: Agnès Varda and street photographer JR crisscross rural France in their roving camera-mobile-- a truck that produces larger-than-life portraits of the people they meet, which are then pasted onto local walls. The pair encounter an array of farmers, former miners, dockworkers, and others whose stories form a collage of a country where meaningful traditions persist in the face of encroaching modernity. A detour-rich road movie, a charming intergenerational buddy film, and an ode to artisans of all stripes, the film finds Varda making new memories while revisiting old ones, yielding what is ultimately a bittersweet, puckishly profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of art, relationships, and life itself.
Salut les cubains: A travelogue made from over four hundred still photographs taken during a trip to Cuba in the wake of its 1959 revolution. Through fluid montage, the people captured by Varda's camera come to playful, loving life.
Ulysse: In this ruminative cross-pollination of film and photography, Agnès Varda uses a mysterious still image that she took in the late fifties-- of a nude man (the photographer Guy Bourdin, a friend of hers) and a toddler on a rocky beach, flanked by a dead goat with a swelling belly in the foreground-- as the springboard for a contemplation on the passing of time and the subjectivity of meaning in art.
Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . .: Agnès Varda's lifelong interest in still portraiture informs this record of a provocative Munich exhibition by the artist Ydessa Hendeles that contemplates our need for nostalgia and comfort in a violent world through an assemblage of hundreds of antique photographs of people and their teddy bears.

Table of Contents:

• Visages villages = Faces places / Rosalie Varda présente un film de Agnès Varda et JR ; une co-production Ciné Tamaris, Social Animals, Rouge International, Arte France Cinéma, Arches Films (2017 : 93 min. ; surround ; 1.85:1)
• Salut les cubains (1964 : 29 min. ; mono ; 1.66:1)
• Ulysse (1982 : 22 min. ; mono ; 1.66:1)
• Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . . (2004 : 42 min. ; stereo ; 1.37:1).

Contributors:

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 , director, screenwriter, on-screen participant, editor of moving image work

JR, 1983- , film director, screenwriter, on-screen participant

Varda, Rosalie, 1958- , presenter

M, 1971- , composer

Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020 , on-screen participant

Bourdin, Guy , on-screen participant

Hendeles, Ydessa , on-screen participant

Ciné Tamaris (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Social Animals (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Rouge international (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Arte France cinéma (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Arches Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

French
English

Language Notes:

French dialogue.

Included Works:

Visages villages (Motion picture)

Ulysse (Motion picture : 1982)

Salut les cubains

Ydessa, les ours et etc. ...

Related Series:

Complete films of Agnès Varda; program 13

Subjects:

Portrait photography — France

Photomurals — France

France — Social life and customs — 21st century

Cuba — Description and travel

Cuba — Social conditions — 1959-1990

Hendeles, Ydessa — Exhibitions

Hendeles, Ydessa

Travel

Social conditions

Portrait photography

Photomurals

Manners and customs

Cuba

France

1959-2099

Genres:

Motion pictures

Travelogues (Motion pictures)

Short films

Feature films

Exhibition catalogs

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

Blu-ray; region A, B, C; requires Blu-ray player.

Performers:

Faces places: featuring Agnès Varda, JR.
Salut les cubains: with Michel Piccoli.
Ulysse: with Guy Bourdin.

Production Credits:

Faces places: music, Matthieu Chedid, aka M ; editing, Agnès Varda.

General Notes:

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Title from disc label.
Issued in a boxed set entitled: The complete films of Agnès Varda.
Digitally restored.
Special features: Chance is the best assistant (codirectors Agnes Varda and JR discuss the making of Faces places); The beach cabin (outtake from Faces places); A visit from Mattheiu Chedid (codirectors Agnes Varda and JR discuss the music of Faces places with composer Matthieu Chedid); Trailer for Faces places; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Salut les cubains; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Ulysse; 2007 introduction by Agnes Varda for Ydessa, les ours et etc. . . .; Une minute pour une image (a selection of photographs accompanied by commentary by intellectuals and artists - the filmmaker herself included - for French television).

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (186 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; all regions

Call Numbers:

PN1995.9.P7 VIS 1964 BLU

ISBNs:

9781681437361 (boxed set)
1681437368 (boxed set)

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515247917 (boxed set)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC3164BD-13 (disc)
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC3164BD (boxed set)

OCLC Numbers:

1176497252