The Prince Charles Cinema

One Sings, the Other Doesn't [L'une chante l'autre pas]

  • 1977
  • 120mins
  • France
  • (12A)
  • Drama
Directed by Agnès Varda Starring Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès

In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by the women's liberation movement. A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn't is one of Agnès Varda's warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages.

Thursday 25th September