Documenteur

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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