Les créatures
A Complicated Passion: Two Films by Agnès Varda
September 17, 2024
Among Varda’s most philosophically ambitious and formally eccentric works, Les créatures stars Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve as a couple who have just moved to a misty island as a number of peculiar developments suggest that its residents are being controlled by mysterious, invisible forces….
Introduction by A Complicated Passion author Carrie Rickey, preceded by a book signing. Get double feature tickets with Le bonheur and save!
Among Varda’s most philosophically ambitious and formally eccentric works, Les créatures stars Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve as a couple—the former a science-fiction writer, the latter his silent wife—who have just moved to the misty island of Noirmoutier (where Varda and her husband, the filmmaker Jacques Demy, had a vacation home) as a number of peculiar developments suggest that its residents are being controlled by mysterious, invisible forces…. As reality and fiction become ever more indistinguishable, Varda conjures a fantastic yet perceptibly personal meditation on free will, creativity, and the miracle by which any work of art emerges into the world. 4K digital restoration by Ciné-Tamaris and the CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, with the support of the CNC, SHE ECHOES, and CHANEL; courtesy of Janus Films.
Born in Los Angeles, Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic, art critic, and film historian. She was the film critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years and has also written for Artforum, Art in America, Film Comment, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Politico. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia.
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