“Varda by Agnès” opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Dec. 13. Continuing to show is “Parasite.”
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as a spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging.
Suffused with the people, places and things she loved — Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes — this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.
“Varda by Agnès” shows through Dec. 19.
Director Bong Joon Ho’s new film “Parasite” is also showing at the Ross.
The Park family is the picture of aspirational wealth, where the Kim family is only rich in street smarts. The two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families.
But, when a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks
“Parasite,” which is rating R for language, some violence and sexual content, will show through Dec. 19.
For more information, including show times, call 402-472-5353 or visit the Ross website.
