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《南特傑克》影片最後，安妮華達的鏡頭，著迷般地凝視著她丈夫傑克德米病榻旁那幅灰藍色的陰鬱畫作：一個男子拿著耙子，在海灘上清理著藻類的背影，透露出一股孤寂又靜謐的哀傷。熟悉德米作品的影迷，或許很難將他的電影代表作如《秋水伊人》及《柳媚花嬌》中的繽紛律動，和這幅晚年畫作聯想在一起。但對於在這部片中，伴隨著德米重返童年走了一遭的華達來說，卻可能是最完美的註腳。
“I live by my own standards—not by men’s.” She was a director, a cinematographer, a poet, an installation artist, a key figure of the French New Wave. She was a woman. She filmed her muses, scavengers, drifters, distant uncles, lost lovers—and herself. She wandered through the Left Bank of Paris, strolled down Rue Daguerre, flew to San Francisco and Cuba, and eventually returned to the beach she loved most. She was Agnès Varda. This August, Giloo presents 14 handpicked works by Varda—black and white, color, documentary, fiction, film stock, and DV. Two years after her farewell, we invite you to once again meet her—at her sharpest, and her kindest.
In a foreign city, I watched film after film. Each story, tenderly written, spoke of home and youth—and more than once, I found myself in tears in the darkness of the theater. I thought of the faraway South, of streets I once raced through, of words once spoken, of songs once sung. In this constant loop of remembering and returning, I heard the call of a life that can only be lived once. Summer is ending, and soon I will leave this place again. I’ve chosen five films—a quiet offering, for the teenager you once were.
Through the power of storytelling, directors shape films— and in return, those films leave indelible marks on their creative souls. Giloo invites you to step inside and outside the frame, visiting the lives of master filmmakers both behind and beyond the camera. See Hou Hsiao-hsien’s quiet charm when he sets down the director’s baton, hear David Lynch reflect on the hidden corners of his past, and witness Agnès Varda’s final farewell—infused with childlike wonder and grace. These films reveal the true faces of iconic auteurs— their artistic journeys, their obsessions, their passions, and yes, a touch of beautiful madness.