Lions Love (… and Lies)
Varda: A Retrospective
December 20, 2019 - January 6, 2020
This erotic Californian odyssey, in which Warhol superstar Viva enters into a precarious ménage à trois with the writers of the musical Hair, was one of Varda’s boldest, goofiest reckonings with the American counterculture. An NYFF7 selection.
“It’s your story—you do it!” Lions Love (… and Lies), made in the late sixties during Varda’s first sojourn in California, was one of the director’s boldest, goofiest reckonings with the American counterculture. Warhol superstar Viva floats into a precarious ménage à trois with James Rado and Gerome Ragni, the lyricists of the musical Hair. Gleeful, unabashed disrobings; stretches of poolside drifting; visits from Eddie Constantine and Shirley Clarke; the TV announcements of the shootings of Andy Warhol and RFK: Varda captures it all with her usual mischievous humor, occasionally—in an early show of her gifts as a personal essayist—stepping in front of the camera herself. An NYFF7 selection.
Playing as part of Varda: A Retrospective, December 20-January 6. See showtimes & get tickets.
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