Jane B. For Agnès V.

After seeing Varda’s Vagabond, actress, singer, and fashion maven Jane Birkin was interested in making a film with its director. Varda’s response was to make a film about the actress herself, with a focus on her fear of turning 40. To French audiences, Jane Birkin is much more than an actress; she is an icon. She seems to have made her life into a performance, whether as a sixties icon or an eighties personality, and the film explores the constant, reversible oscillation of public and private contained in Birkin’s public persona, even as it undermines this with fabricated footage of roles Birkin never played and interviews she never gave.