2000, Varda documentary
This is highly personal, shot on digital video. Varda foregrounding herself, her use of the camera, is to great effect when it offers a chance for meditation on her own hands, her amazement in new technology, her own personal relation to the milleu. The chummy tone shouldn't fool though, this is put together with hard-won mastery. Varda decides to adopt a fast editing style, constantly moving from one shot and strand to another. Thus any slight rest is used to draw emphasis.
The fast pace of this surely partly accounts for its popularity, and does make it a particular kind of documentary; this isn't a deep social investigation of root causes, for all the powerful compassion it shows. And yet the willingness to get up close, to not shy away, has a depth of its own, even if it can appear 'all surface'. This film is at times both charming, and curious.
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