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'For friend and fellow director Agnès Varda, Shirley Clarke is seen in front of the camera playing a version of herself. "It's your story—you do it!" Lions Love, made during Varda's sojourn in California, was one of the Varda's boldest, goofiest reckonings with the American counterculture. Warhol superstar Viva floats into a precarious ménage à trois with James Rado and Gerome Ragni, the lyricists of the musical Hair. Gleeful, unabashed disrobings; stretches of poolside drifting; visits from Eddie Constantine and Shirley Clarke; the announcement, by way of the trio's boxy TV, of the shootings of Andy Warhol and RFK: Varda captures it all with her usual mischievous humour, occasionally—in an early show of her gifts as a personal essayist—stepping in front of the camera herself.' Film Society of Lincoln Center

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