Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaCinematography:
Eric GautierCast:
Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Anouk Aimée, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer (more)Plots(1)
A celebration of cinema’s centennial, One Hundred and One Nights finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant sense of style and an adoring but slightly off-kilter perspective on the magic of filmmaking. French New Wave icon Michel Simon is a mysterious aging impresario named Simon Cinéma who has hired a young film student, Camille (Julie Gayet), to simply sit with him at his mansion and talk about movies. Skeptical yet increasingly enchanted, Camille bears witness to cinema itself coming to life, allowing Varda to wittily integrate a mind-boggling parade of appearances by screen legends (Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Robert De Niro, and many others), and attest to the vigorous health of the movies at the close of the twentieth century. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Michel Piccoli
France
Best movies:
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Milou in May (1990)
Mado (1976)
Marcello Mastroianni
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Like Father, Like Son (1957)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Henri Garcin
Belgium
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Common Man (1975)
The Verdict (1974)
Julie Gayet
France
Best movies:
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Cafard (2015) - narrator
Pourquoi pas moi ? (1999)
Mathieu Demy
France
Best movies:
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
L'affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
Anouk Aimée
France
Best movies:
A Man and a Woman (1966)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Best Years of a Life (2019)
Fanny Ardant
France
Best movies:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
The Family (1987)
Finally, Sunday (1983)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
The Professional (1981)
Romane Bohringer
France
Best movies:
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
Savage Nights (1992)
Total Eclipse (1995)
Sandrine Bonnaire
France
Best movies:
East/West (1999)
Happening (2021)
La Cérémonie (1995)
Jean-Claude Brialy
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Patrick Bruel
Algeria
Best movies:
What's in a Name (2012)
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Bandits (1986)
Alain Delon
France
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Catherine Deneuve
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Robert De Niro
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Gérard Depardieu
France
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Shut Up! (2003)
Harrison Ford
USA
Best movies:
Gina Lollobrigida
Italy
Best movies:
Fearless Little Soldier (1952)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
Jeanne Moreau
France
Best movies:
The Carmelites (1960)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Evidence in Concrete (1958)
Hanna Schygulla
German Empire
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)