Lions Love
Agnès Varda
Shirley Clarke, a filmmaker from the New York school, comes to Hollywood to make a film on the city of cinema. She is put up by Viva, a star of underground films who lives with the two other actors in the film, who played Hair on Broadway. The trio lives in idleness, while Shirley Clarke receives rejections from producers for her film...
With : Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Bright, Carlos Clarens, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Viva, Shirley Clarke, Eddie Constantine, Steve Kemis, Max Laemmle
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Stevan Larner
Editing : Robert Dalva
Music : Joseph Byrd
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Stevan Larner
Editing : Robert Dalva
Music : Joseph Byrd
Production : Agnès Varda, Max L. Raab Productions
Distribution: Ciné Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné Tamaris
Without a screenplay as such, the film gives the actors freedom in discourse and improvisation. Agnès Varda described the film as a film collage of America, its cinema and its television: "I played the Hollywood paradox, outbid on the Hollywood myth of the star, with their luxury house, plastic flowers, bar, swimming pool. Lions Love is also a film about the post-hippy generation which cannot adapt to the inventors of hippyism who are 30 today. They reject adult society, do not engage, are afraid of personal responsibilities. They have created the hippy sub-culture which has already itself been hi-jacked...". Made up of disparate elements, the film nevertheless has a central theme: Hollywood. "In Lions Love I wanted to show the new stars. Contemporary stars trying to take the place of the others. Jim and Jerry (the actors in the film) live like millionaire tramps" (Agnès Varda).