(Agnès Varda, France 1987, 80 min., French with subtitles, 35mm)

Not a martial arts movie, this provocative feature stars English actress Jane Birkin, who co-wrote the screenplay. Birkin plays Mary-Jane, a 40-year-old divorcee who falls in love with and eventually has a fleeting affair with a 14-year-old boy (Mathieu Demy, son of director Varda). “Varda’s serene and unrhetorical handling of the loaded subject—underlined with sympathy and understanding for all of the characters, and full of both wit and tenderness—is what gives this picture its charge.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader