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Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
One Hundred and One Nights
1995 ‘Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma’ Directed by Agnès Varda
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Michel Piccoli Marcello Mastroianni Henri Garcin Julie Gayet Mathieu Demy Emmanuel Salinger Anouk Aimée Fanny Ardant Jean-Paul Belmondo Romane Bohringer Sandrine Bonnaire Jean-Claude Brialy Alain Delon Catherine Deneuve Robert De Niro Gérard Depardieu Gina Lollobrigida Harrison Ford Jeanne Moreau Hanna Schygulla Jane Birkin Isabelle Adjani Patrick Bruel Daniel Toscan du Plantier Clint Eastwood Francisco Rabal Stephen Dorff Andréa Ferréol Sabine Azéma Show All…
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Las cien y una noches, Les cent i una nits, Hundert und eine Nacht, 101 éjszaka, 시몽 시네마의 101일 밤, As Cento e Uma Noites, Сто и одна ночь Симона Синема, De 101 nätterna, 101 Gece, 101夜
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02 Feb 1995
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France
25 Jan 1995
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Are you familiar or in love with the following:
Fellini/Mastroianni collaborations
Mastroianni's repartee with Anouk Aimée
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Catherine Deneuve
Robert De Niro (w/ ponytail)
Alain Delon
the Lumière brothers
the Cannes Film Festival
Luis Buñuel
Gerard Depardieu's death scenes
Welles & Touch of Evil
Jeanne Moreau
Jean Renoir
Erich von Stroheim (in The Grand Illusion & Sunset Boulevard)
Agnès Varda (esp. Cleo, Le Bonheur, & Vagabond)
Jacques Demy (esp. Young Girls)
Nosferatu
and/or cinema?Then this is for you. Viewing this was a most unusual experience, having tracked down a copy only by way of my interest in Varda, *not* because anyone recommended it or ever talks about it—zero of my Lboxd peeps have seen it, apparently, and only 153 Lboxd users…
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the sweetest love declaration to cinema, agnès loved movies immensely and i love everything she made just as much. also, we got robert de niro in an agnès varda movie where were the news and the media?
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this is the feature-length equivalent of this video. agnès varda loved movies so much. i'm forever grateful that she gave us a scene where catherine deneueve and robert de niro speak french to each other in a swan boat.
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only someone like Varda or Obayashi could make a love letter to cinema like this and not have it be pretentious as fuck, this would have been absolutely insufferable in the wrong hands (like Godard) but Varda keeps her tongue in her cheek and her heart on her sleeve, as always, one of the all time great Lovers. cinema from 5 to 7
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Many homages to cinema have been made over the decades, but I think Agnès Varda's One Hundred And One Nights might be the most ostentatious/referential one?
It's insane how many cinematic greats appear in this movie.
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In One Hundred and One Nights, Agnès Varda has orchestrated a symphony of endless enchantment, a paean to the joy and magic of cinema.
Monsieur Cinema is an elderly man, frail in body and ailing of mind. He was once a great writer, director and producer but now he is a hundred years old and confined to his country manor. Left to reminisce he starts to despair when his memories begin to fade into the fog of time. To give his recollections a boost, Mr. Cinema hires a beautiful young film student, Camille, to talk to him about movies for one hour each night for a hundred and one days, the idea being that her knowledge will rekindle his memories.…