A varied work from Varda—has elements that touches her documentary/realism roots (we have abortion and suicide in the first half hour), her photography background (some great montages of women in b/w photography in the opening), socio-political (feminism), and strong use of color like 1965’s Le Bonheur (though instead of that film’s yellows this is heavy in green and some purple)
A saga really- a tale of two women living parallel lives, friends that are very different, that sometimes intertwine
The title is right on—there’s a lot of music here
Some messy narrative voice changing formal issues
Stylized letters and post-cards in close-up, colored gorgeous and placed in the frame like Wes Anderson
Disillusionment, tragedy- realism– society as a bit of a prison for these two women- very good characters.
Some nice heavy color saturations in the mise-en-scene—a sea of green, purples— one we have a green kitchen utensils, a green staircase—believably designed color pattern in the mise-en-scene—
Dissolve editing
A great 360 shot near the end with many characters sitting in a circle—we have green grass between them
Ends on the characters daughter in the coda—a great ending—she’s in a green/purple shirt and then we fade to green
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