Lion’s Love
Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2009
(Agnes Varda, USA/France, 1969, 35mm, 110 min)
While her husband Jacques Demy was shooting The Model Shop, director Agnes Varda took a very different cinematic approach in capturing the banal beauty of Los Angeles. Lion’s Love is an imaginative, cinema verité-like fiction film starring Gerome Ragnai, James Rado (the composers of Hair) and Warhol superstar Viva as a ménage-à-trois looking for a future in LA. Filmmaker Shirley Clarke (The Cool World) plays a fictionalized version of herself attempting to get studio financing for a film project.