Movie: Ulysse

Top 4 Billed Cast

Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda

Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Ulysse Llorca
Ulysse Llorca

Self

Fouli Elia
Fouli Elia

Self

Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1986-01-29

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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    Français
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