The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
These films find Varda at a succession of cultural and cinematic crossroads which evidence her uncommon adaptability and insatiable curiosity.
Even a band of misfits as willful as the Superstars was no match for the tranquilizing idyll of SoCal.
The film would have been helped immeasurably with a whole lot less of the intimate effluvia.
Viva is great camp because it’s so over the top—pushes the envelope in all directions—while remaining dryly and wickedly deadpan.