It’s the final night at Film Forum for this extraordinarily smart and sweet autobiographical documentary by Agnès Varda. You really will kick yourself if you miss it. As we wrote in our review, the film “finds exuberance in the act of recollection, like making a happy discovery in a thrift store.” And you all remember what happened when you didn’t buy that long-coveted, out-of-print vinyl version of Missing Persons’s Spring Session M—an album that you raved about for years, yet still didn’t have the cash for at the time—even though there was an ATM in the record store.
It’s Agnès Varda week in Manhattan, between the premiere of this great French director’s latest, The Beaches of Agnès, at Film Forum and today’s three screenings (12:30, 4:00 and 7:30pm) of The Creatures (1966) at the French Institute Alliance Française. Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve star as a married couple who get into a car accident in which the husband is injured and the wife goes mute. They sequester themselves on an island, where they try to conceive a child and where the unspoken tensions of their relationship come to the fore. This is one of Varda’s lesser-known works stateside, so definitely give it a look.