Yesterday I watched Roma, from italian director Federico Fellini. Some weeks ago, I had the opportunity to watch "Visages, Villages", from french director Agnes Varda.
This is not a post to compare both directors. To be true, both movies were my first experience with each director. And it's from this point of view I'm writing.
Varda was born in Brussels and "Visages, Villages" is filmed in small villages in France. Fellini was born in Rimini and "Rome" was filmed in Rome. The inverse path. Not only for this. Varda's movie shows lots of external scenes. "Rome" is full of scenes inside some place. Dark places, sometimes claustrophobic and full of smoke, and rare moments of sun and fresh air.
Qualities? Both have many. Varda and Fellini were not great directors by chance.
Fellini shows Rome with artificial people, heavy make up for women, a very critical eye. It's "his" Rome. His home. His point of view about a city he lived. During the movie someone says Rome is the city of illusions as it concentrates the three powers that manipulate people and cause illusion. Cinema, religion and the government are these powers. The movie shows them for us as a kind of message such as "see, you're being fooled". What to say about that scene when the frescos disappear in contact to the new air?
Varda goes to small villages to know their inhabitants, she listen to their stories to make the movie. It's her point of view about places she didn't live, about other people's stories. And it's a light movie, plenty of external scenes. It also have something artificial. JR himself, and some pics the local people would never imagine to take. But it says how simple is her art. It makes me think on that people who see some art and say "any little child could do this". A child couldn't. And one didn't. Some maturity added to an open mind are required to create meaningful art. No, I'm not talking about age. Maturity and age are different things.
No, I won't choose the best. I put them in the same post because they follow different paths to show the vision of the director about a place. Both are rich experiences I highly recommend.
Nycka, the nomad
This is not a post to compare both directors. To be true, both movies were my first experience with each director. And it's from this point of view I'm writing.
Varda was born in Brussels and "Visages, Villages" is filmed in small villages in France. Fellini was born in Rimini and "Rome" was filmed in Rome. The inverse path. Not only for this. Varda's movie shows lots of external scenes. "Rome" is full of scenes inside some place. Dark places, sometimes claustrophobic and full of smoke, and rare moments of sun and fresh air.
Qualities? Both have many. Varda and Fellini were not great directors by chance.
Fellini shows Rome with artificial people, heavy make up for women, a very critical eye. It's "his" Rome. His home. His point of view about a city he lived. During the movie someone says Rome is the city of illusions as it concentrates the three powers that manipulate people and cause illusion. Cinema, religion and the government are these powers. The movie shows them for us as a kind of message such as "see, you're being fooled". What to say about that scene when the frescos disappear in contact to the new air?
Varda goes to small villages to know their inhabitants, she listen to their stories to make the movie. It's her point of view about places she didn't live, about other people's stories. And it's a light movie, plenty of external scenes. It also have something artificial. JR himself, and some pics the local people would never imagine to take. But it says how simple is her art. It makes me think on that people who see some art and say "any little child could do this". A child couldn't. And one didn't. Some maturity added to an open mind are required to create meaningful art. No, I'm not talking about age. Maturity and age are different things.
No, I won't choose the best. I put them in the same post because they follow different paths to show the vision of the director about a place. Both are rich experiences I highly recommend.
Nycka, the nomad
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