Les créatures
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One of Agnès Varda least-seen films is also one of her most fascinating: an eccentrically imaginative science-fiction fantasia that touches on human nature, free will, and the creative process. Working with major stars for the first time on a feature film, Varda casts Michel Piccoli as a writer and Catherine Deneuve as his silent wife, a couple who relocate to the island of Noirmoutier (a longtime second home for Varda and her husband, Jacques Demy) where strange goings-on hint at a sinister force controlling the minds and actions of the residents. Slipping between “reality” and fiction, genre spectacle and avant-garde experimentation, Les créatures is a beguiling, endlessly inventive exploration of the mysterious alchemy that transforms life into art.
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Cast
- Catherine Deneuve
- Mylène
- Michel Piccoli
- Edgar
- Eva Dahlbeck
- Michele Quellec
- Marie-France Mignal
- Viviane Quellec
- Britta Pettersson
- Lucie de Montyon
- Ursula Kubler
- Vamp
- Jeanne Allard
- Henriette
- Joëlle Gozzi
- Suzon
- Bernard Lajarrige
- Dr. Desteau
- Lucien Bodard
- Monsieur Ducasse
- Pierre Danny
- Max Picot
- Louis Falavigna
- Pierre Roland
- Nino Castelnuovo
- Jean Modet
Credits
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Screenplay
- Agnès Varda
- Produced by
- Mag Bodard
- Cinematography by
- Willy Kurant
- Cinematography by
- William Lubtchansky
- Edited by
- Janine Verneau
- Music by
- Pierre Barbaud
- Music by
- Henry Purcell
- Set design by
- Claude Pignot
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