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One Sings, the Other Doesn’t by Agnès Varda

Fri Mar 20, 2026
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Musical scene with pregnant women in long dresses singing with arms out, surrounded by colorful balloons and a backdrop, with the sea in the background.
Agnès Varda, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, 1977. Image courtesy Janus Films.

Tickets & Info

Tickets & Info

When Fri Mar 20, 2026
Where Walker Cinema
Price $15 ($12 Walker members and seniors); Free for students

Two young friends, Pauline and Suzanne, navigate their nascent adulthood and the influence of France’s 1970s women’s movement on their lives. They reconnect by chance years later, bonding over money raised for an abortion. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t combines elements of musical theater, utopian idealism, and solidarity rooted in sisterhood to shape one of Agnès Varda’s most directly political works. 1977, France, DCP, in French with English subtitles, 121 min.

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Bio

Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer, and visual artist. Often called the “godmother of the French New Wave” for her early works, such as La Pointe Courte (1955) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), she broke narrative traditions and influenced future directors. Varda was credited with inspiring many of the hallmarks of the movement: nonlinear narrative, an emphasis on mood over story line, and often-jarring editing. She also made numerous documentaries, several commissioned by the French tourism office. “I am the queen of the margins,” Varda told the New York Times in 2009, remarking on her lack of name recognition from a commercial standpoint. “But the films are loved. The films are remembered. And this is my aim—to be loved as a filmmaker because I want to share emotions, to share the pleasure of being a filmmaker.”

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Dates & Tickets

    Mon Mar 16 — Sun Mar 22, 2026
  • Fri Mar 20, 2026