Agnès Varda In my preparation for the travel writing research work in Nantes I am by this stage, allowing myself to read, talk about, and watch anything and everything on the city. My most recent discovery, after viewing Agnès Varda's 1991 film on director Jacques Demy, called Jacquot de Nantes , is that Demy directed his first New-Wave feature using Nantes as the setting. The film, Lola , was released in 1961 and is an urban story of everyday life restored to gorgeous glossy black and white by Varda herself. I wish I could show you some stills from the film; I asked UniFrance, for an image but to no avail. I still hope you are inspired to see the film. Passage Pommeraye At least two scenes unfold in the covered arcade called the Passage Pommeraye; they are key moments in the drama, too. And, my favourite shot is on the steps of what must be the Graslin Theatre, which fills the whole screen with geology and architecture with our two protagonists in the foreground. Is M
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