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The Creatures: Directed by Agnès Varda. With Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Marie-France Mignal. A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Agnès Varda
- 1969-12-09
Les Créatures (English: The Creatures) is a 1966 fantasy drama film written and directed by Agnès Varda that recounts a story of a couple who have just moved to a new town and been in a car accident.
Slipping between “reality” and fiction, genre spectacle and avant-garde experimentation, Les créatures is a beguiling, endlessly inventive exploration of the mysterious alchemy that transforms life into art.
- Mylène
Mar 20, 2018 · Richard Brody writes about Agnès Varda’s “Les Créatures,” a lost movie from 1966 starring Catherine Deneuve, which transformed science fiction into a subject in her own image.
Les Créatures. Directed by Agnès Varda. After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people.
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- Sandrews, Parc Film, Madeleine Films
- Agnès Varda
Sep 17, 2020 · Slipping between “reality” and fiction, genre spectacle and avant-garde experimentation, Les créatures is a beguiling, endlessly inventive exploration of the mysterious alchemy that transforms life into art.
Agnes Varda's "Les Creatures" is a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels, but in fact it operates on only one, illustrating how fantasy, reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer.
