Agnès Varda
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But it benefits from Zhao’s instinctive curiosity and identification with outsiders, reminiscent of French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who turned her empathetic camera on vagabonds and gleaners in her innovative docu-fiction features (the French title of “Vagabond,” which translates to “With no roof or rules,” could be a nomad mantra).
Agnes Varda’s 1985 Vagabond (Sans toi ni loi ) was about a female transient wandering the backroads of France.
Still, the philosophical feminist precedent to beat is still Agnès Varda’s chilling, scorchingly defiant Vagabond (1985), which limns an antisocial odyssey to the edge of extinction without resorting to semi-porn.
Because of its sexual content, Romance is being compared to Last Tango in Paris and In the Realm of the Senses , but its microscopic focus on a single characters psychological state ties it to films such as Cleo From 5 To 7 and Repulsion .
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Directed by Céline Sciamma
influenced by La Pointe Courte (1956)
Visuals
As soon as director Sciamma executes the first interaction between Marianne and Héloïse by visually referencing an iconic shot in Agnes Varda‘s La Pointe Courte , this reviewer knew he was going to like Portrait of a Lady on Fire very much.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
When Agnès Varda died earlier this year at the age of 90, she ended her career having followed her own path from her earliest days to the end, including some final films reflecting on her own mortality that were as invested with energy as Cléo From 5 to 7 .
Without doubt, this is Western cinema 's most mature and assured performance by a teenage actress since Sandrine Bonnaire 's award-winning work in "A Nos Amours" and "Vagabond" 30 years ago.
In her we can see a bit of Sandrine Bonnaire's defiant female drifter in Agnès Varda's Vagabond, as well as the passive, inward-bending body language of the young "models" in Robert Bresson's later films, weakly struggling against their fate.
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Directed by Bilall Fallah
influenced by Vagabond (1985), The Gleaners and I (2000)
See it at the Roxie, where it opened Jan. 10 and continues this week, and then go and check out her masterpieces, like “Cleo from 5 to 7,” “Vagabond,” “The Gleaners & I,” “The Beaches of Agnes” and “Faces Places.”
See it at the Roxie, where it opened Jan. 10 and continues this week, and then go and check out her masterpieces, like “Cleo from 5 to 7,” “Vagabond,” “The Gleaners & I,” “The Beaches of Agnes” and “Faces Places.”
Chop Suey -Bruce Weber (Let's Get Lost, Broken Noses) unveiled his latest documentary recently as well.
With this, a more mature response to Breathless (Godard and Anna Karina make cameos as silent movie actors), Varda transforms the typical French cinema gamine into a complex, tragic figure: the girl who's all too good at playing plaything, forced to face the hollowness of her youth.
All throughout, Varda captures the fairy-tale essence of early-'60s Paris with a vivacity and richness that rivals Godard's Breathless .
If this is to be her last film, then it will be one of cinema’s most extraordinary sendoffs, as poignant and perfect a swan song as Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” or Abbas Kiarostami’s “Like Someone in Love.”
Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by Orson Welles
influenced Vagabond (1985), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Plot
This communal storytelling device is similar to, but far more emotionally effective than, the one used in Citizen Kane, in which each interviewee conjectured about the meaning of �Rosebud�.
There's a heightened urban suavity to an early scene inside a trendy hat shop that tips its, well, hat to Citizen Kane .