Summary
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco".
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 78GoodWatch 76
Letterboxd · 17 K ratings4.1/5
IMDb7.4
Reach
Streams in 75 countries
+65Released
1967
October 1, 1967
59 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishMade in
France
and 1 moreDirecting · 2
- Agnès Varda Director, Writer
- Jean Hamon Assistant Director
Production · 1
- Robert Greensfelder Producer
Camera · 2
- Didier Tarot Director of Photography
- David Myers Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Editing · 1
- Roger Ikhlef Editor
Sound · 6
- Yiannis Spanos Original Music Composer
- Richard Lawrence Original Music Composer
- Tomaso Albinoni Music
- Jean Varda Sound
- Paul Oppenheim Sound Mixer, Sound
- Jacques Maumont Sound
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