Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaCinematography:
Eric GautierCast:
Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Anouk Aimée, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer (more)Plots(1)
A celebration of cinema’s centennial, One Hundred and One Nights finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant sense of style and an adoring but slightly off-kilter perspective on the magic of filmmaking. French New Wave icon Michel Simon is a mysterious aging impresario named Simon Cinéma who has hired a young film student, Camille (Julie Gayet), to simply sit with him at his mansion and talk about movies. Skeptical yet increasingly enchanted, Camille bears witness to cinema itself coming to life, allowing Varda to wittily integrate a mind-boggling parade of appearances by screen legends (Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Robert De Niro, and many others), and attest to the vigorous health of the movies at the close of the twentieth century. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Sabine Azéma
France
Best movies:
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
The Lacemaker (1977)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Jane Birkin
UK
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Arielle Dombasle
USA
Best movies:
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Perceval (1978)
Alibi.com 2 (2023)
Stephen Dorff
USA
Best movies:
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Felon (2008)
Blade (1998)
Andréa Ferréol
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Daryl Hannah
USA
Best movies:
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Sense8 (2015) (series)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Day for Night (1973)
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Emily Lloyd
UK
Best movies:
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A River Runs Through It (1992)
When Saturday Comes (1996)
Assumpta Serna
Spain
Best movies:
Sharpe's Enemy (1994) (TV movie)
Henry VIII (2003) (TV movie)
Sharpe's Company (1994) (TV movie)
Martin Sheen
USA
Best movies:
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Departed (2006)
Harry Dean Stanton
USA
Best movies:
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Elizabeth Taylor
UK
Best movies:
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Leslie Caron
France
Best movies:
Chocolat (2000)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Françoise Arnoul
Best movies:
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
Way of Youth (1959)
The Country I Come From (1956)
Marie-France Pisier
Vietnam
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Chiara Mastroianni
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
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Other People's Children (2022)
Paulette Dubost
France
Best movies:
May Fools (1990)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Way of Youth (1959)
Mila Parély
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Angels of Sin (1943)
Francisco Rabal
Spain
Best movies:
History (1986) (TV movie)
Viridiana (1961)
La colmena (1982)
Salomé Blechmans
Best movies:
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)