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Jane B. for Agnès V.
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Title: Jane B. for Agnès V.

Release Date: 2 Mar 1988

Runtime: 1h 37m

Genre: Documentary

Director: La Sept Cinéma, Ciné-Tamaris

Production Companies: La Sept Cinéma, Ciné-Tamaris

Overview: The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

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Average Vote: 6.8 (54 votes)

Cast

  • Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc: Jane Birkin
  • The Angry Lover: Jean-Pierre Léaud
  • Painter / Murderer: Philippe Léotard
  • Colonial: Farid Chopel
  • Verlaine's Reader: Alain Souchon
  • Self: Serge Gainsbourg
  • Lardy: Laura Betti
  • Assistant Mistress: Monique Godard
  • Bailiff: Ian Marshall
  • J's Daughter: Charlotte Gainsbourg
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