Film
One Sings, The Other Doesn’t
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 113 mins
In 1960s France, 17-year-old Pauline (Valérie Mairesse) helps her single mother chum Suzanne (Thérèse Liotard) to procure an abortion. The former goes on to become a folk singer and have children with her Iranian lover, while the latter runs a family planning clinic. Many years on, they’re reunited at an abortion trial.
Agnès Varda‘s decades-spanning feminist drama is set against the backdrop of the ’70s women’s movement, in which she was personally involved. It’s back on screen in the Gleaning Truths: Agnès Varda season of digital restorations of her movies.
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