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Status
Released
Release
1988
Runtime
1h 37m
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The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
15 Cast Members
Jane Birkin
Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Jean-Pierre Léaud
The Angry Lover
Philippe Léotard
Painter / Murderer
Farid Chopel
Colonial
Alain Souchon
Verlaine's Reader
Serge Gainsbourg
Self
Laura Betti
Lardy
Monique Godard
Assistant Mistress
Ian Marshall
Bailiff
Charlotte Gainsbourg
J's Daughter
Mathieu Demy
A's Son
James Millard
Tarzan
Pascale Torsat
Titian's Model
Henri Piednoir
Baker
Agnès Varda
Self (uncredited)
