Lions Love
Agnès Varda
Three actors on the road to “stardom” rent a house in the Hollywood Hills. They all have lion's manes. They will experience in their own ways the assassination of Robert Kennedy through what is shown on television.
With : Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Bright, Carlos Clarens, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Viva, Shirley Clarke, Eddie Constantine, Steve Kemis, Max Laemmle
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Stevan Larner
Editing : Robert Dalva
Music : Joseph Byrd
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Stevan Larner
Editing : Robert Dalva
Music : Joseph Byrd
Production : Agnès Varda, Max L. Raab Productions
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Following the success of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Agnès Varda accompanied Jacques Demy to the US where he was invited by Columbia to develop a project. The couple discover the birth of the hippy movement but remain lucid with regards to the violent inequalities in the country: there are vagrants everywhere and the Vietnam war is still causing devastation. It was from this observation that Varda made this imaginary report around artists of the time (Warhol superstars, the creators of Hair, filmmaker Shirley Clarke) who, in the fiction of the film dream they are stars. Hollywood is shown as a land without memory, having bartered its glorious past for the profits of mendacious television. The spectacular assassination of Robert Kennedy during the shoot short-circuited and downed the fiction.