Documenteur (1981)

Directed by

Agnès Varda

Genre

drama film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

14

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A single mother and her young son live in Los Angeles. The film follows their daily life and the mother's feelings of isolation.

quietmelancholicintimateslow-pacedcontemplativeobservationallonelyunderstated

What happens

Documenteur also known as Documenteur: An Emotion Picture is a French-American feature film by French director Agnès Varda. The film debuted at the 1981 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Sabine Mamou as a single mother and Varda's son Mathieu Demy as her son. Though the film stands on its own it was made as a companion piece to the documentary Mur Murs in which Varda filmed mural art around L.A. and interviewed the artists who had made the pieces. Many of the murals filmed in Mur Murs appears in Documenteur and the film even opens with the same image as Mur Murs ended on. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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