Agnès Varda - Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald (1961)

A subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.

The Cleo version is a shorter edit and has a different soundmix, here you can hear Michel Legrand impro without added reel sounds…



Un joven ve la vida en negro cuando se pone las gafas de sol, basta que se las quite para que todo se arregle.
Cortometraje parodiando un film mudo, en blanco y negro, con Jean-Luc Godard y Anna Karina de protagonistas, que fué incluído en el largometraje "Cléo de 5 à 7" aunque esta versión tiene una banda sonora distinta donde Legrand se recrea a gusto.





Scénario : Agnès Varda - Image : Jean Rabier - Montage : Jeanine Verneau - 16 mm, noir et blanc, 4 min

Avec : Sami Frey, Jean-Claude Brialy, Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard

L'histoire : Un jeune homme voit la vie en noir quand il porte des lunettes noires. Il lui suffit de les ôter pour que les choses s'arrangent.