Cast : Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard, Robert Dadiès, Jean-Pierre Pellegrin, Ali Raffi, François Wertheimer
1977 / drama / France / original title : L’une chante, l’autre pas / 120’ / Color / status : completed / French / long feature-film / International collections
In the early 1960s in Paris, two women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring young singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pauline lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, after which, they lose track of each other. Over a decade later, they meet at a women’s lib demonstration.
Press
«Varda is making her case for feminism in a lyric voice»
Roger Ebert
«One of the most appealing films by Agnès Varda»
Roger Ebert
«A wondrously free-form movie - full of color and light, warmth and music… An enchantingly upbeat chronicle.»
Los Angeles Times
«A personal film of epochal scope.»
The New Yorker
