House Landscape

This film (drama)Also known as7p.，is aFranceProducerwomen sex，At1984Released in year 。The dialogue language isFrench，Current Douban rating8.1(For reference only)。

In July 1984, Varda saw an exhibition called "The Living and the Artificial" (Le vivant et l'artificiel) in a nursing home in Avignon. In the exhibition space, artworks coexisted chaotically with animals, artificial hearts, and moldy walls. The visual shock left her unable to compose herself for a long time, prompting her to decide to lead us back to dangerous ground. We see one house after another, some empty, some full. As time passes, strange traces are left behind. Furthermore, Varda also encountered Yolande Moreau, the "Maid," and Marthe Jarnias, the "Old Lady," who would appear in "The Gleaners and I" in this nursing home. 　　Varda said: 　　‘In the shaking of the high-speed train, I couldn't help but think of those discordant images that my mind was trying to absorb. As soon as I arrived in Paris, I immediately called Louis Bec and Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, asking them to let me film this exhibition, not to understand it, but to draw inspiration from it. They agreed. A few days later, we set off to shoot. In the shaking of the high-speed train back to Avignon, Nurith Aviv asked to see my big notebook to know what he was going to shoot. The pages of the notebook were almost blank; we only saw some titles: kitchen, parents' room, dining, windows. All aspects of family life were noted down, but nothing was prepared. The entire film was shot in an improvised manner, without markings, without context. I was merely following the authentic heartbeat I felt by visiting the site and the presence of those elderly people who still felt warm.’ 　　A. Varda, 1993, in Varda par Agnès, Ed. Cahiers du cinéma, 1994.