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©2007
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4 videodiscs (approximately 354 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #418
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Originally produced as motion pictures in 1956, 1962, 1965 and 1985
[v. 1.] La Pointé Courté (1956) (80 min.) -- [v. 2.] Cléo de 5 à 7 = Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) (89 min.) -- [v. 3.] Le bonheur = Happiness (1965) (80 min.)-- [v. 4.] Sans toi ni loi = Vagabond (1985) (105 min)
La Ponté Courté. A film about a fishing town and a couple who are evaluating their changing relationship. Varda juxtaposes the two tales to create a unique perspective on life
Box set special features include : New restored digital transfers, supervised and approved by director Agnès Varda. Three short films by Varda: L Opéra Mouffe (1958), Du côté de la côte (1958), and Les fiancés du Pont Macdonald (1961). On Cléo from 5 to 7: a 2005 documentary on the making of the film; a short film from 2005 in which Varda retraces Cléo s steps through Paris; Varda speaking with Madonna about the film in 1993. On Le bonheur: new interviews with the three actors from the film; a 2006 discussion with four scholars about the film; footage of Varda on-set; 1998 interview with Varda; 2003 interviews on the concept of happiness. On Vagabond: a 2003 documentary on the making of the film; a 2003 interview with composer Joanna Bruzdowicz; a 1986 radio interview with writer Nathalie Sarraute; a 2003 interview with actress Marthe Jarnias. PLUS: New essays by Chris Darke, Adrian Martin, Amy Taubin, and Ginette Vincendeau; plus, a foreword on each film by Varda herself
Cléo from 5 to 7. A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers
Cinematography by Claude Beausoleil, Patrick Blossier, Paul Bonis , Alain Levent, Jean Rabier, Paul Soulignac, Louis Stein ; music, Pierre Barbaud, Michel Legrand, Wolfgang A. Mozart, Joanne Bruzdowicz
Le bonheur. Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker
Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane
Vogabond. Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom
DVD; Dolby digital, mono
French with optional English subtitles