A Complicated Passion: Two Films by Agnès Varda
On the occasion of the publication of writer Carrie Rickey’s A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, Film at Lincoln Center welcomes the author for a special double bill of Varda’s fiction films from the 1960s
Agnès Varda
1965|
France|
80 minutes|
French with English subtitles
This barbed masterpiece—about a carpenter testing the limits of the domestic bliss he knows with his picture-perfect wife and children, a complement to the crescendoing feminist movement in the mid-’60s—exemplifies Varda at her boldest.
Agnès Varda
1966|
France / Sweden|
92 minutes|
French with English subtitles
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….
On the occasion of the publication of writer Carrie Rickey’s A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda (to be released on August 13 by W. W. Norton & Company), Film at Lincoln Center welcomes the author for a special double bill of Varda’s fiction films from of the 1960s—the barbed and bold masterpiece Le bonheur (1965) and the philosophically ambitious and formally eccentric Les créatures (1966)—with a book signing in between the two screenings. Additionally, Le bonheur will be followed by a discussion between Rickey and critic Molly Haskell about Varda’s fascinating life and indelibly iconic career.
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.
