"I SHALL WRITE A BOOK SOME DAY ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF NAMES"

This is a collection of short films that are all named after (or allude to) a character in the film, more often than not they are named after a female character (perhaps because these films were predominantly made by men, French men!), in many ways the films are cinematic odes to the characters/actors/people they are about … and in some cases the names have been ‘immortalized’ by the filmmakers.

Geneviéve Bujold in “Geneviéve” (1964)

Nadja Tesich in “Nadja in Paris” (1964)

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier in “Antoine et Colette” (1962)

The following...