Jane B. for Agnès V.
1988The 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.
Acted in
Jane Birkin
as Calamity Jane / Claude Jade / Joan Arc
Jean-Pierre Léaud
as The Angry Lover
Philippe Léotard
as Painter / Murderer
Farid Chopel
as Colonial
Alain Souchon
as Verlaine's Reader
Serge Gainsbourg
as Self
Laura Betti
as Lardy
Monique Godard
as Assistant Mistress
Ian Marshall
as Bailiff
Charlotte Gainsbourg
as J's Daughter
Mathieu Demy
as A's Son
James Millard
as Tarzan
Pascale Torsat
as Titian's Model
Henri Piednoir
as Baker
Agnès Varda
as Self (uncredited)