Kung-Fu Master!
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Made concurrently with Agnès Varda’s portrait of Jane Birkin, Jane B. par Agnès V., Kung-Fu Master! is a true family affair, achieving a sense of of lived-in intimacy by casting the actor’s real-life relatives, including daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, as themselves. Varda and Birkin give the familiar theme of a misunderstood couple searching for a place where their love can survive a provocative twist in this daring romance, in which Birkin (who wrote the story that provided the inspiration for the film) plays a middle-aged woman involved with a fourteen-year-old, video game–obsessed boy (Varda’s son, Mathieu Demy). The taboo relationship plays out with supreme delicacy and restraint, as Varda transforms the explosive premise into a disarmingly tender portrait of a woman’s search for lost youth.
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Cast
- Jane Birkin
- Mary-Jane
- Mathieu Demy
- Julien
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Lucy
- Lou Doillon
- Lou
- Judy Campbell
- Mother
- David Birkin
- Father
- Andrew Birkin
- Brother
Credits
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Written by
- Agnès Varda
- Cinematography by
- Pierre-Laurent Chénieux
- Sound
- Olivier Schwob
- Edited by
- Marie-Josée Audiard
- Music by
- Joanna Bruzdowicz
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