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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Directed by
Agnès Varda
Not Rated
1977
2h 2m
Drama
,
History
7.4
65%
82%
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The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
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Cast of One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Thérèse Liotard
Suzanne
Valérie Mairesse
Pauline aka Pomme
Robert Dadiès
Jérôme
Mona Mairesse
Pomme's Mother
Francis Lemaire
Pomme's Father
François Courbin
Mathieu (9 months)
Salomé Wimille
Marie (3 years)
Nicole Clément
Philosophy Teacher
Patricia Cartier
Chorus Friend
Sapho
Painted Chorus Girl
Dane Porret
Rocker Yéyé
Françoise Bette
Concierge
Fred Maubert
Commissioner
Gisèle Halimi
Gisèle Halimi
Dominique Ducros
Marie (13 years)
Ali Rafie
Darius
François Gibert
François I, the Guitarist
Marion Hänsel
Pregnant Tightrope Walker
Jean Van Der Swalnen
Suzanne's Father
Gilette Barbier
Suzanne's Mother
Isabelle Eduards
Marie (5 years)
Frédéric Boyot
Mathieu (2½ years)
Gilberte Sallé
Social Worker
Élise
The One with Stage Fright
Jean-Pierre Pellegrin
Dr. Pierre Aubanel
Laurent Plagne
Mathieu (11 and 15 years)
Bénédicte Charonnet
Carla, Marie's Friend
Evelyne Tonietto
Evelyne (Planning)
Élise Beltrame
Élise
Josette
Waitress
Lucia
The One Who Doesn't Know
Elsa
The One Who Tells Suzanne Off
Jeanine Braendlin
The One Who Challenges the Song
Joëlle Papineau
Joëlle
Micou Papineau
Micou
Doudou Greffier
Doudou
François Wertheimer
François II, the Flutist
Mathieu Demy
Zorro, his Son
Laetitia Rojas
Suzanne (2 years)
Rosalie Varda
Marie (17 years)
Agnès Varda
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
One Sings, the Other Doesn't Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Goes on to become one of the most appealing films by a French director whose best work has always found a balance between the heart and the mind.
Bitch Media
Alyx Vesey
The anticlimactic epilogue may suggest that these women-and all women-are in a continued state of becoming. This statement speaks to Varda's significance as a filmmaker.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
If "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" is something of a thesis movie, that thesis takes shape gently, with equal parts documentary grit and dreamlike evanescence.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Despite its historical importance and its relevance to contemporary debate, [One Sings, the Other Doesn't] hasn't, in itself, dated well.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The drama's bitter conflicts, grievous losses, and wrenching separations are buoyed by a steady sense of purpose, and its political candor is matched by the aesthetic audacity of its blend of genres, from musical and melodrama to documentary.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
One sings; the other doesn't. None of that matters. In Ms. Varda's world, an ideal yet to be realized, they are the same -- root and stock. They are women.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
It's light, easy on the eye, and almost guaranteed to leave everyone in an ebullient mood.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
While One Sings, the Other Doesn't is obviously a strong personal statement about women now, it is so beautifully particularized by the storyteller and her principals that it is a demonstration and never a lecture.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Unlike films about male friendship, where the two guys do everything together as a team, One Sings, the Other Doesn't offers a more natural, leisurely set of circumstances with the two women drifting in and out of each other's lives.
Boston Globe
Bruce McCabe
It ought to be seen although, while watching it, I'm not always sure why. The reason is that Varda's politics, intelligent and perceptive as they are, sometimes work against her talents as a filmmaker.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The sunshiny simplicity of the feminist movement celebrated here is so laughable that you can't hate the picture. You just feel that some of your brain cells have been knocked out.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
[The film] has some good sequences in it, is beautifully acted by two actresses who are new to me, is handsomely composed but, at key moments, it's as phony as Soviet neo-realist art. It's of less interest as a movie than as a statement of position.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Varda has failed to find a satisfying emotional narrative to communicate her personal conviction.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Ms. Varda's way is straightforward, leisurely and enjoyable acted by Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Though Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard are captivating performers and Varda's direction has a sweet, unforced race, the result is a movie whose emotional temperature never rises above lukewarm.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
Despite its progressive tone, oddly reminscent of Soviet films that used to enthuse over the brighter day ahead and urge their publics optimistically onward, "One Sings" represents a regression in every crucial respect.
Arizona Republic
Mike Petryni
It's not that Ms. Varda is not well meaning. It's not even that she's out of date, if only because this is a historical tract. It's just that One Sings, the Other Doesn't is so banal.
Washington Post
Judith Martin
Varda's film celebrates the adolescent viewpoint: One's parents are meanies who don't understand about sex; one's children are toys to be cuddled when needed, like stuffed animals in a dormitory bed. The only honest thing is one's own precious feelings.
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
A surprisingly lazy and self-indulgent work. Rather than trust her characters to convey the film's content, the director smothers the movie with a voice-over narration that lectures the audience on the Meaning of It All.
Village Voice
Carmen Gray
The film is a breath of fresh air for simultaneously channeling radical attitudes and evading wallowing in bitter or toxic scenarios.
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