Word: noirmoutierã
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...this past week from March 8-16. Demonstrating the same independent streak that runs through her films, Varda left quite an impression on Harvard: she refused to be interviewed by a Harvard Gazette reporter who admitted to not sitting through her installation video, “Les Veuves de Noirmoutier?? (“The Widows of Noirmoutier??). The video is currently exhibited in the Carpenter Center.Despite her tough demeanor, however, Varda is a people person. Like her films, she digs to the very core of humanity and allows it to resurface, placing her camera exactly where...
...widows appear in the first image of Agnes Varda’s exhibition “Les Veuves de Noirmoutier?? (“The Widows of Noirmoutier??) at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Instead, just a table, long and bare, stands on an empty beach. Without human presence, the table looks out of place and useless, as if its only purpose were to disrupt the stretched smoothness of the coast. As the widows trickle in and out of the next four photographs, they circle around the table, leaning on it and then looking...
Throughout the tales and across all screens run images of the landscape of Noirmoutier??flying seagulls, overgrown gardens and fishing boats—rooting the widows’ tales in the story of the island they will never leave. Just as they remain loyal to their husbands, the women remain faithful to the land on which they celebrated their love. Attachment to the land is an extension of their loyalty...
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