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The Films of Agnès Varda

Salut les Cubains

29m

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1964 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli

Agnès Varda constructed this invigorating travelogue from over four hundred still photographs taken during a trip to Cuba in the wake of its 1959 revolution. Through fluid montage, the people captured by her camera come to playful, loving life.

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