

One Sings, the Other Doesn't(1977)
"You are not born a woman… you become one."
Overview
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
AI Insights
Powered by GPT-5.1
AI summary is being generated.
Top Cast
Swipe or use arrows

Thérèse Liotard
Suzanne

Valérie Mairesse
Pauline aka Pomme
Robert Dadiès
Jérôme
Mona Mairesse
Pomme's Mother

Francis Lemaire
Pomme's Father
François Courbin
Mathieu (9 months)
Salomé Wimille
Marie (3 years)
Nicole Clément
Philosophy Teacher

Patricia Cartier
Chorus Friend

Sapho
Painted Chorus Girl
Dane Porret
Rocker Yéyé

Françoise Bette
Concierge
Fred Maubert
Commissioner

Gisèle Halimi
Gisèle Halimi
Dominique Ducros
Marie (13 years)

Ali Rafie
Darius
François Gibert
François I, the Guitarist

Marion Hänsel
Pregnant Tightrope Walker
Jean Van Der Swalnen
Suzanne's Father

Gilette Barbier
Suzanne's Mother
Isabelle Eduards
Marie (5 years)
Frédéric Boyot
Mathieu (2½ years)
Gilberte Sallé
Social Worker
Élise
The One with Stage Fright
Jean-Pierre Pellegrin
Dr. Pierre Aubanel
Laurent Plagne
Mathieu (11 and 15 years)
Bénédicte Charonnet
Carla, Marie's Friend
Evelyne Tonietto
Evelyne (Planning)
Élise Beltrame
Élise
Josette
Waitress
Lucia
The One Who Doesn't Know
Elsa
The One Who Tells Suzanne Off
Jeanine Braendlin
The One Who Challenges the Song
Joëlle Papineau
Joëlle
Micou Papineau
Micou
Doudou Greffier
Doudou

François Wertheimer
François II, the Flutist

Mathieu Demy
Zorro, his Son
Laetitia Rojas
Suzanne (2 years)

Rosalie Varda
Marie (17 years)

Agnès Varda
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Official Trailer
Click to rate
Featured Reviews
You Might Also Like

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
Apur Sansar

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Princess Yang Kwei-fei

Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
The War of the Worlds: Next Century

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Lions Love

The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
Pendular

A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
Nausicaa

The adventures of an inattentive man who can't look away from his book.
An Interesting Story

A young mother Nina and her son Enzo find themselves sleeping on the streets of Paris. Eventually there lifestyle leads them to Versailles.
Versailles

Solange, in her sixties, her 3 daughters, and Zouzou, her 14 year-old granddaughter, spend a few days in the country. An opportunity for Solange to announce the news: she has a new man in her life. And the sexual side of the relationship, should they discuss it or ignore it?
Zouzou

Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Breathe

After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.
Red Rocket

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Cléo from 5 to 7

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
The Piano

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
The Mission

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
The Chaser

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
My Life as a Zucchini

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Melancholia

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Casablanca

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
The Favourite

Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.