You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

A whimsical very enjoyable short commissioned for the cinematheque in Paris the film intercuts images of the stairs at the cinematheque with clips of actors descending or ascending stairs taken from famous films.

A sweet short that is very easy to watch and enjoy done in a fun collage style that is somehow completely unique and also completely Varda.

Agnès Varda's short "T'as De Beaux Escaliers, Tu Sais" ("You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You know?") is an homage to the French Cinematheque and an invitation to us viewers to discover its beauty, its charm, to watch the great movies that were part of its history and walk on the elegant stairs of the place.

The film is narrated by Isabelle Adjani and features not only images of the Cinematheque but also clips from films like "Citizen Kane", "Ran", "Battleship Potemkin" and more, some of the films that were shown there. In an unusual way, Varda selected scenes from these films where stairs are displayed making a funny contrast between the stairs from the Cinematheque and the ones filmed in classic films.

It's very hard to tell the more of 50 years of history of a magnificent place like that in three minutes but at least Agnes tried. It's a good invitation and a nice homage to the art of films. 7/10