Elsa la rose | |
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Directed by | Agnès Varda |
Written by | Agnès Varda |
Starring | Louis Aragon Elsa Triolet Michel Piccoli |
Cinematography | Willy Kurant William Lubtchansky |
Music by | Simonovitch Ferrat Moussorgsky Gershwin Handy |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Ciné-Tamaris |
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Running time | 16 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Elsa la rose is a 1965 short documentary film by Agnès Varda about Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon's relationship.[1]
The documentary films the two writers, telling their story and their memories, from Elsa Triolet's youth to when she met with Louis Aragon,[2] whilst a voice (Michel Piccoli) reads Aragon's poems about Elsa.[3]
The film was shot in Elsa and Louis' home in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines and in the Bar du dôme at Montparnasse during June 1965.[4]
The film is shot during the year 1965, but was only first seen on television on 23 Octobre 1966 during a show called “Dim Dam Dom” on ORTF second channel.[4]