Jumping ahead a bit in the schedule to post about Mur Murs (1980), a time capsule that still resonates with insight about urban multiculturalism, popular art, and as always with Varda, individual perspectives on the city and on life. The roller skates are, as the kids say, an entire mood in this documentary. They are everywhere, and…

Watching this film feels like putting together a puzzle that has a few extra pieces thrown into the mix. There’s no way to make all of them fit together at once, but it’s instructive to try, in turn, setting different pieces to work with and against one another. Max Nelson sums up the basic plot in this review and situates Les…