101 Nacht – Die Träume des M. Cinema (1995)

101 Nacht – Die Träume des M. Cinema: Directed by Agnès Varda. With Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet. Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

“The cinema student and cinephile Camille Miralis (Julie Gayet) is hired by a huge amount to assist the one-hundred year-old Monsieur Simon Cinéma (Michel Piccoli), whose memories is fading away, telling stories about the movies he made along one hundred and one days. Camille meets many movie stars that visit Monsieur Cinema, including his Italian friend Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon and his ex-wives Jeanne Moreau and Hanna Schygulla. Meanwhile Camille learns that he misses his grandson Vincent that disappeared and she plots with her boyfriend Camille u0026quot;Micau0026quot; (Mathieu Demy) that wants to make a film to use their friend Vincent (Emmanuel Salinger) that has just come from India to pose as the grandson to inherit his assets. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the centenary of the cinema history, the fantasy u0026quot;Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinémau0026quot; is a great tribute by Agnès Varda. The cinema forgetting the good films is an intelligent criticism to the quality of the contemporary commercial movies. The impressive number of cameo appearances associated to footages of classics is a delight to any cinephile. Unfortunately the lead story with Camille, Mica and Vincent is totally disappointing. My vote is seven.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTitle (Brazil): u0026quot;As Cento e Uma Noitesu0026quot; (u0026quot;The One Hundred and One Nightsu0026quot;)”