Documentaries reflecting our way of life. Revealing the beauty in nature, in art, even in trash - art of its own kind, perhaps. Three hidden treasures this week, all three documentaries.
THE GLEANERS & I (AGNES VARDA) - 2000
What a wonder Agnes Varda is. Cinema wouldn't be the same without her. The Gleaners & I is her excellent documentary about gleaners in France, and also about herself, with the affectionate affinity she comes to feel with these people. It's an illuminating and quite heartwarming little treat, and if you don't check it out, that had better be because you're checking out all of Agnes Varda's other films.
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (2010) - PATRICIO GUZMAN
The science of life. The physics of the universe, and the biology of the mind. This is the external space in which we exist, and that is the internal space in which we feel. The cinematography is by the great Katell Dijan, but even his magical images can't compare to the unutterably stunning photographs of our universe.
THE QUINCE TREE SUN (1992) - VICTOR ERICE
A beautiful film about the creation of art, with veteran filmmaker Victor Erice stepping back simply to observe, as any one of us might observe the charming Antonio Lopez Garcia's gorgeous artwork. An intimate, evocative film, full of a disarming honesty in its depiction of life as it happens.
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