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Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing
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Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

by Roger Crittenden
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
11h 36m
English
Focal Press
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6   Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais

In 2001, after the release of her film ‘Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse’ (The Gleaners and I) Agnès Varda was invited to the Tate Modern in London to talk about her career.

In describing her entry into cinema she emphasised that she had no training or background in the medium and drew on other forms for her inspiration and approach: She emphasised that: ‘Literature – Joyce, Faulkner, Dos Passos – showed that linear narrative was not the only way’ and therefore her films from the beginning have not embraced linear narrative. ‘Not A to B to C even if “the guilty one” is identified at the end’.

She said that ‘A film should offer something to everyone – images, sounds, emotions, maybe a story, but above all the chance ...

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ISBN: 9780240516844