#73 - Cleo from 5 to 7

Allrighty - that's more like it - French New Wave, with Paris as a supporting character -

Agnes Varda is a director I FEEL like I should know more about - she's put out quite a body of work over the years but this is the first film of her's I've seen - another film of her's is up next so we'll get to that -

This is almost a real time - (a' la 24) film of two hours of a woman's life as she is awaiting results of a medical test - we see how a woman in Paris were catcalled 24/7 and essentially controlled by the men around them, and I think this is what Agnes intended - The Film follows her from stop to stop, but what strikes me is how much of the atmosphere around her is also captured and how it must have been spontaneous, as opposed to planned on set.  There is one scene in particular where she and a friend are driving in an open top convertible, and as they go by everyone turns to stare, and while it's easy to imagine they're staring at her, I think they're staring at the cameraman in the vehicle/trailer AHEAD of them as they just film live in the streets of Paris

Guilty pleasure - I often try to find identifying parts of Paris (streets, corners, restaurants) and google map them just to see how they look today - sometimes it's only slightly changed, which I love about Paris.

let's face it - I'll always have some favorites, and this kind of dialogue, live driven film will always appeal to me more than musicals - in fact I'm going to see if I can maybe find it used somewhere - there are some special features I couldn't get to - (thanks filmstruck) such as an actual motorcycle ride down the spots where the movie was filmed, that I think would be incredibly interesting to watch.

That's all for now - wife is out of town for a week - but availability thanks to Roku fucking me over is going to be limited to what I can scrounge out of the library, Netflix, or the internet - pisses me off to no end that Roku cancelled filmstruck right as I couldn't renew for one more month thru other means - just a total bullshit move - I'll never sign up for a service thru Roku again - they fucked their commission over on that

EDIT:  - a month after I wrote this I finally got a Library copy that included the special features, including one of my favorites, a tracking shot thru the Paris shooting (well a bumpy tracking shot) but also some great remembrances from Agnes and Corinne from a 2005 documentary - where I learned among other things, that they shot the movie sequentially, and there's a small error in the last shot that I totally overlooked - LOL