A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS

A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS (LES CENT ET UNE NUITS), 1994
France, England | DCP, Color, 135 min | French
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Gercin

In this film, Agnès Varda’s loving and joyful tribute to the cinema and cinephiles, Michel Piccolli appears in the role of Simon Cinéma, an eccentric, hundred-year-old cinema enthusiast who lives in a large and ostentatious house which is replete with film posters on walls and reminders of the history of cinema. Simon hires a film student to visit her every day for 101 days to help her record her memories. The film then takes us on a dizzying journey through Simon Cinéma’s memories of the world of film. An entertaining show containing dozens of film clips and discussions about cinema, this journey features a number of famous actors such as Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford and Harry Dean Stanton, who discuss their experiences and memories of their careers in film.