Short film

Ulysse

1986 · 22 min

A quiet, thoughtful essay film that turns a single photograph into a meditation on memory, time, and the stories we project onto images.

Directed by: Agnès Varda
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Agnès Varda, Ulysse Llorca, Fouli Elia

Overview: At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.

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Directed by: Agnès Varda
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Agnès Varda, Ulysse Llorca, Fouli Elia

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
art
identity
aging
death
Places: sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Written by: Agnès Varda
Starring: Agnès Varda, Ulysse Llorca, Fouli Elia
Music: Pierre Barbaud
Cinematography: Pascal Rabaud, Jean-Yves Escoffier
Runtime: 22 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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