Vagabond

Pat 2022-03-21 09:03:05

Nipping audience's hope in the bud, in VAGABOND, Varda lets on the bleak fate of its protagonist right out of the box, a corpse of a girl in rigor mortis is found in a ditch of the wintry southern France. Who is this young girl? Deploying a subjective female voice-over and a faux documentary idiom...

Jewell 2022-03-22 09:02:44

She lay in the stiff ditch, her body cold. The camera is reversed from here. From one person's narration, clip to another's, she's pieced together. Connection makes people imagine without reason.
    Wandering always leads people into a romantic situation.
    The lines of her face are like the...

Natalia 2022-03-19 09:01:08

The fatalistic double bass theme, the small fragments of the horizontal lens, the stranger's perspective is slowly pieced together: absolute independence means absolute isolation, absolute freedom means absolute loneliness, absolute rebellion means absolute reaction, and absolute resignation, loneliness and reaction are difficult Sustain tends to lead to nothingness or depravity. This is quite consistent with the phenomenon of lone wolf extinction in community research. And Varda, under the seemingly cold-eyed onlooker, slowly spelled out their own mental images and the world with the attitude of passers-by towards the vagrants. The setting of the two seemingly good intellectuals basically responded to the paradox of existential isolation.

Yessenia 2022-04-19 09:02:44

[Criterion Channel] Varda's revisited documentary in 2003 pointed out that dirt is a very important theme in the film. From the fresh and clean beach at the beginning, to the muddy paillasse day at the end, the space of Mona ranges from a vast beach to a cramped station, showing the characteristics of those marginal characters that society hates: dirty, drugs, loud, drunk, Vomit. The various reactions of the people Mona met, or sympathy, admiration, or accusation, were more like a social microscope than reflecting the character of Mona, reflecting their own temperament. The audience is also tested during the viewing process: if a stinking girl hitches a car alone on the side of the road, would you stop? I lamented that the shooting process was not easy. The scene where I tripped over the water pipe and fell into the pit was shot twice, and I felt distressed.