Jane B. for Agnès V.
Mar 02 1988
•2h 37m
•Documentary
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
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Jane Birkin
Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Jean-Pierre Léaud
The Angry Lover
Philippe Léotard
Painter / Murderer
Farid Chopel
Colonial
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