L'une chante, l'autre pas
Agnès Varda
Two young women live in Paris in 1963. Pauline, 17, a student who dreams of leaving her family to become a singer. Suzanne, 22, takes care of her two children and has to deal with the drama of their father's suicide. They are separated by life; each experiences their own experience as a woman. Ten years later, they meet during a feminist demonstration…
With : Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse, Francis Lemaire, François Courbin, Ali Rafie, Gisèle Halimi, Salomé Wimille, Nicole Clément
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Charles Van Damme
Sound : Henri Morelle
Editing : Joële Van Effenterre
Music : François Wertheimer
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Charles Van Damme
Sound : Henri Morelle
Editing : Joële Van Effenterre
Music : François Wertheimer
Production : Ciné Tamaris, INLC, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Constructed around a quote from Simone de Beauvoir, “you are not born a woman, you become one”, L'une chante, l'autre pas (One Sings, the Other Doesn't) takes the form of a feminist musical. “I put everything across in the songs. The experienced, the sung, the felt, I thought it would be more tonic, more efficient”. And Agnès Varda had things to get across since the film talks about free, guiltless abortion, the horror of parental authority and sexual education, among other subjects. Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard are the young actresses Varda called on to embody this joyous and playful activism.