1995 · comedy · cinema · ensemble
One Hundred and One Nights
Directed by Agnès Varda1h 45m1995
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.
Our read: One Hundred and One Nights (1995) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · cinema · ensemble entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / cinema, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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