One Sings, the Other Doesn't

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One Sings, the Other Doesn't

1977

1h 45m

Drama

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Two Frenchwomen (Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard) have a close friendship through years of personal growth and social change.

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Spanning over a decade, One Sings, The Other Doesn't is a thoughtfully radical tale of two friends that captures female solidarity with an honest beat set to the fight for women's rights.

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Susan Stark

Detroit Free Press

03/08/2023

One sings; the other doesn't. None of that matters. In Ms. Varda's world, an ideal yet to be realized, they are the same -- root and stock. They are women.

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Kathleen Carroll

New York Daily News

03/08/2023

3/4

It's light, easy on the eye, and almost guaranteed to leave everyone in an ebullient mood.

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Charles Champlin

Los Angeles Times

03/08/2023

While One Sings, the Other Doesn't is obviously a strong personal statement about women now, it is so beautifully particularized by the storyteller and her principals that it is a demonstration and never a lecture.

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Sean Axmaker

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04/29/2025

You could call the film a feminist musical but it’s also a touching film about friendship, sisterhood, and creating a meaningful life for oneself, and Varda’s portrait empathizes with almost every character in the film.

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Carson Timar

ClapperCast

07/08/2023

Varda does a wonderful job here both at capturing history and analyzing the future.

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Rick Chatenever

Santa Cruz Sentinel

03/08/2023

It is to director Varda's credit that the portrayals ring so true, and touch so deeply.

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Synopsis

Two Frenchwomen (Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard) have a close friendship through years of personal growth and social change.

Director: Agnès Varda
Producer: Agnès Varda
Screenwriter: Agnès Varda
Distributor: Ciné-tamaris
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 1977, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 5, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.2K
Runtime: 1h 45m