Jane B. for Agnès V. (1988)

Jane B. for Agnès V. (1988)

1988-03-02 France 97 Min. PG-13
6.7 53 votes

Overview

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.

Cast

Jane Birkin is Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Jean-Pierre Léaud is The Angry Lover
The Angry Lover
Philippe Léotard is Painter / Murderer
Painter / Murderer
Farid Chopel is Colonial
Colonial
Alain Souchon is Verlaine's Reader
Verlaine's Reader
Monique Godard is Assistant Mistress
Assistant Mistress
Ian Marshall is Bailiff
Charlotte Gainsbourg is J's Daughter
Mathieu Demy is A's Son