The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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