#tagging him as well because i'll never recover from seeing that child bvjhfb

[pridewon]

@tvrningout​ said:  is there a movie genre or trope agnes dislikes and why? does that change as she grows older? what film or kind of film do you think would’ve made the biggest impact on her artistically?

teenage agnès in all her “too cool 4 school” young artist glory would probably express how profoundly she dislikes romcoms, because of how uninventive they are - both on story and on cinematic technique. more broadly, she doesn’t like films that feel like recorded theatre, where the camera just follows the characters, and most of the artistry and storytelling is done through dialogues. 

adult agnès still stands by that statement - but doesn’t restrict it to romcoms only, and acknowledges that some romcoms do better than this. adult agnès is a bit of an omnivore, who has learnt that there is something cool to learn or steal from every genre and almost any film - even the less ostentiously remarkable ones. hell, speed (1994) is a ridiculous movie, but is it her guilty pleasure because the action sequences are epic and nail-biting? hell yes!

agnès always says that her version of a midlife crisis will be that she will interrupt her career as an independent documentary and art filmmaker to make an action flick. something with tight-knit stunt sequences as crisp and over-the-top as jackie chan’s best, for the beauty of the choreography and movement. or maybe a horror film, with the same low-budget, stitched-together vibe as the very first saw or the original blair witch project.

as for inspirations for her own style and career -- she got into agnès varda’s films when her parents told her she was named after her, and varda naturally became one such inspiration, along with experimental filmmaker chris marker from the same french new wave movement. she hasn’t done much fiction, but if she were to name one inspiration that informed the way she films the subjects of her documentaries? it would probably be 12 angry men. 

bonus: bby goshiki making a cameo at the 1963 olympics in that film i linked from chris marker??