#B31: VARDA, Agnès: One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

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VARDA, Agnès (France)
One Hundred and One Nights [1995]
Spine #B31
Blu-ray


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 Piccoli 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 the twentieth century.

104 minutes
Color
Stereo
in French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2020




Director/Writer


Agnès Varda was 67 when she directed One Hundred and One Nights.

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)
#B21/#978: One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
#B20/Eclipse Series 43: Documenteur (1981)
#B22: Réponse de Femmes (1975)
#B19/Eclipse Series 43: Mur Murs (1981)
#B18/Eclipse Series 43: Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969)
#B36: Ulysse (1982)
#B8: L'Opéra-Mouffe (1958)
#B23: Plaisir d'Amour en Iran (1977)
#B24/#74/#418: Vagabond (1985)
#B9: Les Dites Cariatides (1984)
#B25: 7 P., Cuis., S. de B. . . . (à Saisir) (1985)
#B26: Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
#B27: Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
#B28: Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
#B30: The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
#B29: The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
#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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