Elsa la rose

This short is very nouvelle vague, but like the previous movie, it doesn’t really seem to be Varda’s aesthetics — it’s kinda gimmicky? But it seems more heartfelt, which is rather Varda.

Hey, it’s Maria Falconetti!

Well, I dunno. It seems like the movie’s heart is in the right place, but it doesn’t tell us why we should care about these people, and the artifice of it all just makes it rather annoying?

Elsa la rose. Agnès Varda. 1966. ⚁

Les créatures

Well, I dunno. I mean, I’m a huge Varda fan, but this seems like such a mish-mash… It’s less like a Varda movie than a Godard pastiche?

Lots of crabs. Must be symbolic.

And then all of a sudden that guy’s playing chess with er satan or somebody. But a very high tech satan — he’s got a 3D chessboard and surveillance cameras!

Which makes sense.

The other guy is on the side of lurve.

It’s a pretty good idea, I guess, but the resulting movie isn’t really that gripping.

Right:

Les Créatures was an official selection of the 27th Venice International Film Festival, though it received mixed reviews. The film failed commercially.

Well, I can see that. I don’t think it’s a successful movie, but it’s kinda interesting? But…

Huh:

There are no critic reviews yet for The Creatures.

Nobody has reviewed this movie for the Tomatoes? Perhaps it hasn’t been shown for a while? So I guess it was a real bomb commercially.

And it’s not a lost masterpiece.

The Creatures. Agnès Varda. 1966. ⚂

Arsenic and Old Lace

After watching perhaps the worst movie I’ve ever seen (see “previous” in this post), I had to watch something guaranteed to be good. And I’ve seen this a couple of times before, but it’s been a long time — and this is a new 2K restoration from Criterion. So it’s gonna be even better!