Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaComposer:
Pierre BarbaudCast:
Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Nino Castelnuovo, Jacques Charrier, Bernard La Jarrige, Britta Pettersson, Ursula Kubler, Pierre Danny (more)Plots(1)
One of Agnès Varda least-seen films is also one of her most fascinating: an eccentrically imaginative science-fiction fantasia that touches on human nature, free will, and the creative process. Working with major stars for the first time on a feature film, Varda casts Michel Piccoli as a writer and Catherine Deneuve as his silent wife, a couple who relocate to the island of Noirmoutier (a longtime second home for Varda and her husband, Jacques Demy) where strange goings-on hint at a sinister force controlling the minds and actions of the residents. Slipping between “reality” and fiction, genre spectacle and avant-garde experimentation, Les créatures is a beguiling, endlessly inventive exploration of the mysterious alchemy that transforms life into art. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Catherine Deneuve
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Michel Piccoli
France
Best movies:
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Milou in May (1990)
Mado (1976)
Eva Dahlbeck
Sweden
Best movies:
So Close to Life (1958)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
A Lesson in Love (1954)
Nino Castelnuovo
Italy
Best movies:
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Die Kinderklinik (1993) (series)
Jacques Charrier
France
Best movies:
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Bernard La Jarrige
France
Best movies:
The Train (1964)
The Spies (1957)
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
Britta Pettersson
Sweden
Best movies:
The Creatures (1966)
Ursula Kubler
Switzerland
Best movies:
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1963)
Vie privée (1962)
French Cancan (1955)
Pierre Danny
France
Best movies:
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)
Je vous ferai aimer la vie (1979)
The Secret (1974)
Jeanne Allard
Best movies:
The Lacemaker (1977)
Vie privée (1962)
Zazie in the Underground (1960)