Documenteur

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Agnès Varda
  • France, USA 1981
  • 63 minutes
  • French, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Agnès Varda’s fascination with California culture has resulted in a number of uniquely beautiful films shot in the Golden State, films that subtly capture the director’s ambivalent, complicated and ultimately loving feelings about America.

Documenteur is a moving work of autobiographical fiction about a young French woman in Los Angeles as she copes with a recent breakup and wanders the city in search of a home for her and her son (played by Varda’s real-life son, Mathieu Demy). This mysterious, serenely melancholic film is a meditative portrait of urban isolation overflowing with visual poetry.

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  • Director Agnès Varda
  • Script Agnès Varda
  • Cinematography Nurith Aviv
  • Editing Sabine Mamou
  • Music Georges Delerue
  • Actors Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Tom Taplin, Gary Feldman, Lisa Blok-Linson
  • Source MK2, Paris