Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaCast:
Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Alain Souchon, Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Demy, Agnès Varda, Laura Betti, Farid Chopel (more)Plots(1)
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. par Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon, as Varda casts her variously as a classical muse, a femme fatale, a Spanish dancer, Joan of Arc, and even a deadpan Laurel opposite a clownish Hardy in a fanciful slapstick spoof. Made in the spirit of pure, uninhibited play, this free-flowing dual portrait unfolds as a shared reverie between two women as they collapse the boundaries between artist and subject. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jane Birkin
UK
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Day for Night (1973)
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Philippe Léotard
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Les Misérables (1995)
Two English Girls (1971)
Alain Souchon
Morocco
Best movies:
One Deadly Summer (1983)
L'homme aux yeux d'argent (1985)
I Love You All (1980)
Serge Gainsbourg
France
Best movies:
Do You Want to Dance with Me? (1959)
Anna (1967) (TV movie)
Slogan (1969)
Charlotte Gainsbourg
UK
Best movies:
21 Grams (2003)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
The Cement Garden (1993)
Mathieu Demy
France
Best movies:
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
L'affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
Agnès Varda
Belgium
Best movies:
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Laura Betti
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Blackout in Rome (1960)
Farid Chopel
France
Best movies:
The Flesh (1991)
La Femme de mon pote (1983)
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2006)
James Millard
Best movies:
National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018) (theatrical recording)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Atlas (2024)