A revealing encounter with documentary on Paris’ caryatids, the female nude or seminude statues that can be found in all kinds of architectural elements, such as architraves, friezes, and balconies accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.
The So-called Caryatids
Les dites cariatides
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Agnès Varda
- Cinematography: Cyril Lathus
- Editing: Hélène Wolf
- Production: TF1, Ciné-Tamaris
- Format: Betacam SP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: France
- Production Year: 1984
- Duration: 13'
- Contact: Ciné-Tamaris, cine-tamaris@wanadoo.fr
Agnès Varda
Filmography
1963 Salut les cubains
1967 Oncle Yanco | Uncle Yanco
1968 Black Panthers
1975 Daguerréotypes
1981 Mur murs| Murals
1984 Les dites cariatides |The So-Called Caryatids
2000 Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse | The Gleaners and I
2008 Les plages d'Agnès
2017 Visages Villages | Faces Places
