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Running Time
1 hour, 41 minutes
Country UK, France
Production Companies
Ciné Tamaris, France 3 Cinéma, Recorded Picture Company (RPC)
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Other Titles
• Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
• Hundert und eine Nacht (1995)
• A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
• A Hundred and One Nights
• Les Cent et une Nuits
• One Hundred and One Nights
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Genre: Comedy, Scams And Cons
Plot: Agnes Varda reflects on her fifty years of filmmaking as well as the entire hundred-year history of the medium. Casting Michel Piccoli (CONTEMPT, BELLE DU JOUR) both as himself and also as Simon Cinema, legendary figure of film history, Varda sets up a rollicking parable of cinematic flashbacks, cameos, and commentary, all supported by a light romantic intrigue. When Simon Cinema hires beautiful Camille, an aspiring film buff, to help spur his memory, a stylized and compelling parade of film clips, images, actors, and icons makes cameos at Cinema’s spacious villa on the outskirts of Paris. Filmed in beautiful and extravagantly lush hues and outlandish and constantly changing sets, the film progresses as a series of comedic memory-jogging sessions. As Cinema and his "Italian friend" Marcello Mastroianni discuss and argue, they are visited by, among others, the founders of film--the Lumiere Brothers, Anouk Aimee, Jean Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, and Robert De Niro. Along the way Camille concocts a halfhearted plot to claim Cinema’s inheritance in order to fund her boyfriend’s first film. Not only a passionate backward glance at the history of film, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS also states a case for a future generation of film lovers and filmmakers.
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Agnès Varda
Cléo de 5 à 7, Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les, Sans toit ni loi |
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Agnès Varda
The Truth About Charlie, Cléo de 5 à 7, Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les |
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