Jane B. for Agnès V.

• 6.721 Documentary
• 1988-03-02
• 97 minutes mins

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

Starring:

Jane Birkin (Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc) Jean-Pierre Léaud (The Angry Lover) Philippe Léotard (Painter / Murderer) Farid Chopel (Colonial) Alain Souchon (Verlaine's Reader) Serge Gainsbourg (Self) Laura Betti (Lardy) Monique Godard (Assistant Mistress) Ian Marshall (Bailiff) Charlotte Gainsbourg (J's Daughter)

Director:

Agnès Varda

Writer:

Agnès Varda