House Scenery

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 titled "The Living and the Artificial" (Le vivant et l'artificiel) at a nursing home in Avignon. Inside the exhibition space, artworks coexisted chaotically with animals, artificial hearts, and moldy walls. The visual impact left her deeply affected, prompting her to lead us back into danger. We see one residential space after another, some empty, some filled. With the passage of time, they leave behind strange traces. Additionally, Varda encountered Yolande Moreau, the "maid," and Marthe Jarnias, the "old lady," who were to appear in "Without Home." Varda said: "In the shaking of the high-speed train, I couldn't help but think—of those dissonant images my mind was trying to absorb. Once I arrived in Paris, I immediately called Louis Bec and Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, asking them to let me shoot this exhibition, not to understand it, but to draw inspiration from it. They agreed. A few days later, we set off to film. On the high-speed train back to Avignon, Nurith Aviv asked to see my big notebook to understand what he was going to shoot. The pages were almost blank; we only saw some headings: Kitchen, Parents' Room, Dining, Windows. All aspects of family life were noted down, but none were prepared. The entire film was shot entirely through improvisation, without markers or context. I merely followed the real heartbeat I felt while 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.