#B20/Eclipse Series 43: Documenteur (1981)

VARDA, Agnès (France)
Documenteur [1981]
Spine #B20/Eclipse Series 43
DVD
Blu-ray


This small-scale fiction about a divorced mother and her child (played by Agnès Varda’s own son) leading a quiet existence on L.A.’s margins was made directly after Mur Murs, and though Documenteur is different in form and tone from that film, the two are complexly interwoven, with overlapping images and ideas. This meditative portrait of urban isolation overflows with subtle visual poetry.

64 minutes
Color
Monaural
In English and French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2015/2020
Director/Writer

Agnès Varda was 53 when she directed Documenteur.

Other Varda films in the Collection:

#B2: Les 3 Boutons (2015)
#B4: Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux (1958)
#B3/#419: La Pointe Courte (1955)
#B7: Les Fiancés du Pont Macdonald (1962)
#B5: Du Côté de la Côte (1958)
#B6/#73: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
#B35: Salut les Cubains (1964)
#B12: Le Lion Volatil (2003)
#B13/#420: Le Bonheur (1965)
#B14: Les Créatures (1966)
#B15: Elsa la Rose (1966)
#B17/Eclipse Series 43: Black Panthers (1970)
#B16/Eclipse Series 43: Uncle Yanco (1968)
#B10: T'As de Beaux Escaliers, tu sais (1986)
#B22: Réponse de Femmes (1975)
#B21/#978: One Sings, The Other Doesn't (1977)
#B23: Plaisir d'Amour en Iran (1977)
#B19/Eclipse Series 43: Mur Murs (1981)
#B18/Eclipse Series 43: Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969)
#B36: Ulysse (1982)
#B8: L'Opéra-Mouffe (1958)
#B24/#74/#418: Vagabond (1985)
#B25: 7 P., Cuis., S. de B. . . . (à Saisir) (1985)
#B9: Les Dites Cariatides (1984)
#B26: Jane B. Par Agnès V. (1988)
#B27: Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
#B28: Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
#B29: The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
#B31: One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
#B30: The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
#B32: The Gleaners and I (2000)
#B33: The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)
#B11: Daguerréotypes (1975)
#B37: Ydessa, Les Ours Et Etc. . . . (2004)
#B39: The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
#B38: Agnès de Ci de là Varda (2011)
#B34: Faces Places (2017)
#B1: Varda by Agnès (2019)

The Film


The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer


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