Die eine singt, die andere nicht (1977)

Die eine singt, die andere nicht: Directed by Agnès Varda. With Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse. The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

“Sidney Lumetu0026#39;s u0026quot;the groupu0026quot;(from Mary McCarthy) was,in its own special way,some kind of womanu0026#39;s lib manifesto.Here the group is a two-person team but we see them live during a pretty long time,from 1962 to the mid-seventies.Itu0026#39;s interesting to notice that abortion was legal in France only in 1975,thanks to minister Simone Veil.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAgnès Vardau0026#39;s last feature film was u0026quot;les creaturesu0026quot; a work for highbrows.u0026quot;Lu0026#39;une chante,lu0026#39;autre pasu0026quot; is a return to an accessible ,more palatable style.All things womanu0026#39;s lib indeed.Of the two characters ,Suzanne,played by beautiful Thérèse Liotard,is by far the most endearing:her path ran into difficulties,even tragedies:her loveru0026#39;s suicide,her parentsu0026#39; despise who treated her like a dog,her affair with a married man…Pomme is a singer who wants to be free,but she acts like a bubblehead girl:marrying an Iranian,were he the most liberal of them all, is not perhaps the right move..u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA lot of this stuff has not worn well:the second part recalls hippies communities,and chic ones at that.The epilogue might be a nod to u0026quot;le bonheuru0026quot; her 1964 movie,which was nevertheless disputable in several respects.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAgnès Varda regained the audienceu0026#39;s favor in the eighties with u0026quot;sans toit ni loiu0026quot; and her superb love movie for her husband Jacques Demy u0026quot;Jacquot de Nantesu0026quot;.”