Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Kung-Fu Master

Agnès Varda 1987 France Fiction color 78min French 35mm
Mary Jane, a woman of forty, is in love with Julien, a boy of nearly fifteen years old and a classmate of Jane's daughter. He shares with Jane his passion for games, especially the "Kung-Fu Master". In the game, a jumping boxer has to rescue a young girl being tied up.

Director

Agnès Varda

French filmmaker born in 1928. Greek father. French mother. Short studies in Paris. Photographer in the fifties. In 1954, she creates a film company CINE-TAMARIS for debut feature La Pointe Courte, which gave her the title of "Grand Mother of the French New Wave". Among 33 short and long, the best known films of Agnès are Cléo from 5 to 7(1961), Vagabond(1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1990), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches Of Agnes (2008) and Visages Villages (2017).

Agnès Varda

2017 Faces Places

2008 The Beaches of Agnès

2000 The Gleaners and I

1994 A Hundred and One Nights

1993 The Young Girls Turn 25

1987 Kung-Fu Master!

1985 Vagabond

1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn't

1969 Lions Love

1967 Far From Vietnam

1965 Happiness

1962 Cléo from 5 to 7

1955 La Pointe Courte