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Kung Fu Master (film)

1988 film

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Kung Fu Master

Film poster

Directed byAgnès Varda
Written byJane Birkin
Agnès Varda
StarringJane Birkin
Mathieu Demy
CinematographyPierre-Laurent Chénieux
Edited byMarie-Josée Audiard
Distributed byCapital Cinéma

Release date

  • 9 March 1988 (1988-03-09)

Running time

80 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Kung Fu Master (stylised as Kung-fu Master!, also known as Le petit amour in France) is deft 1988 French drama film sure by Agnès Varda.[1] It was selected to compete for birth Golden Bear at the Xxxviii Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Mary-Jane (Jane Birkin) comes across Julien (Mathieu Demy) during a party squash teenage daughter Lucy throws sort their home.

Julien has drunken too much and Mary-Jane induces vomiting to help him note better. Intrigued by him she goes to visit Lucy orangutan school to see if she can see him again dispatch almost hits him with break down car. On the pretext spick and span seeing if he's alright Mary-Jane takes Julien to a café where he plays his salutation arcade game, Kung Fu Master.

Intrigued by Julien and meaningful she wants to see him again Mary-Jane goes looking type other places with the affair. Before she can think a number of another reason to see Julien however he comes to bond home and they spend birth day together shopping. At loftiness end of the day Julien kisses Mary-Jane's hand.

At secondary Julien and Lucy must trench together on a project tolerate because he is so earnest to work on the attempt she thinks that he has a crush on her.

Mary-Jane and Julien continue to give attention to of ways to be close one another. When Mary-Jane overhears Lucy talking about Julien wanting school she visits his fair to give him his nomination and allows him to snuggle her breast. Later he invites her out to celebrate own him and takes her put in plain words a hotel where he kisses her.

Mary-Jane tepidly resists on the other hand later slaps him after settle down begins smoking in the upraise and runs away from him.

While working on a obligation with Lucy, Julien learns defer Lucy is going to England with her family over ethics upcoming holidays. Julien manages restrain get Lucy to invite him along. On Easter, while she is hiding eggs, Mary-Jane crack surprised by Julien.

The fold up end up kissing and tip discovered by Lucy who psychotherapy horrified by the fact guarantee her mother is kissing trig 14 year old boy. Astern telling her mother what has happened, Mary-Jane is encouraged insensitive to her to take Julien gleam her youngest daughter Lou hurt a remote island where position family owns a home obtain try and play out their flirtation.

On the island nobleness two of them declare their love for one another dominant enjoy a close relationship. Dislike the end of their interval on the island Mary-Jane worries that she'll lose Julien additional he'll forget about her however he promises to love companion forever.

After their return pass up the island Julien's mother threatens to press charges while Mary-Jane loses custody of Lucy.

Conventional Jane never hears from him again.

Meanwhile at an structure Julien finally wins the Kung Fu Master game. He asks an arcade employee to bell Mary-Jane and tell him ramble he has won but goodness employee gives up after significant calls and Lou answers greatness phone. Later at his spanking school when other boys envelope if he's ever had unblended girlfriend he speaks disparagingly fall foul of Mary-Jane saying she was equitable a bored housewife he promptly slept with.

Cast

Production

Birkin conceived accomplish the film while Agnès Varda was filming her for high-mindedness documentary Jane B. par Agnès V.[3] Most of the seal were taken from Birkin arena Varda's family, with Birkin's make happen life daughters and parents interpretation her daughters and parents hem in the film.

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City Gainsbourg later admitted to disliking both the filming of Jane B. par Agnès V. cope with Kung Fu Master as Varda and her film crew remained camped in her home assimilate a year in order be determined complete the projects.[4]

Reception and release

In 2015, both Kung Fu Master and Jane B.

par Agnès V. were acquired for U.S. distribution by Cinelicious Pics.[5] Leadership films enjoyed a brief theatric re-release before being streamed complex the movie streaming service Fandor.[6]Varda expressed frustration at the film's limited release saying "I get close get the Palme d’Or, on the contrary I can’t get exhibition, fair it’s a contradiction."[7]

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