Lions Love

1969

1h 50m

Comedy

Drama

List

54%

13 Reviews

Tomatometer

48%

50+ Ratings

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An independent filmmaker is so devastated when her film loses its funding, she decides to end her life.

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Es una película muy bella, y disfruté mucho que deja ver el proceso entre partes.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Varda seems to be trying to make an improvisational meta-Warhol experiment or perhaps a hippie homage to Hollywood (who knows?), but the result, despite mildly pleasant, is in fact a bit pretentious, and the main trio become pretty annoying and dull after a while.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

At first I did not like this movie. The 3 stars were saying things that were supposed to be meaningful and symbolic but which I wasn't getting and only saw as frivolous nonsense until I realized it was frivolous nonsense. They represent what freedom brings to the bourgeoisie: senseless nonsense. Juxtaposed against the assassination of Bobby Kennedy this film is brilliant.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Agnès Varda

Director

Peter Bogdanovich

Actor

Richard Bright

Actor

Carlos Clarens

Actor

Shirley Clarke

Actor

Eddie Constantine

Actor

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Pauline Kael

New Yorker

Lions Love has a graceful surface, but it lacks a sense of the fitness of things -- and I don’t mean empty proprieties but true sensibility.

Feb 5, 2024

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

More than a time capsule of events and moods-it's a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times.

May 29, 2017

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Variety Staff

Variety

The result is a pleasant, sometimes humorous blend of style and technique that ultimately is unsuccessful.

Jul 7, 2010

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Paul Schrader

Coast FM & Fine Arts

In Lion's Love Agnes Varda goes from the intellectual coldness of the French school to the dull, cold films of Warhol.

Jun 30, 2020

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Richard Whitehall

Los Angeles Free Press

The interrelation of themes, the weaving back and forth between acting and actuality, is fascinating. And that strong sense of the ambience of Los Angeles.

Jan 17, 2020

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Lewis Teague

Los Angeles Free Press

Although conceptually interesting, it ultimately disappoints by failing to deal with the things it purports to be about, such as what it's like to be an actor in Hollywood today.

Jan 17, 2020

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Synopsis

An independent filmmaker is so devastated when her film loses its funding, she decides to end her life.

Director: Agnès Varda
Screenwriter: Agnès Varda
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 50m