Varda By Agnes
A perfect button to a legendary life in art, and it's also a launchpad to viewers who want to go back and explore her groundbreaking contributions.
Varda By Agnes
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes—this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.
Genre
Documentary,
Women and Film,
Bio-pic,
French Cinema
Runtime
120
Language
French,
English
Director
Agnès Varda
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Brody, New Yorker
For her posthumously released final film, Agnès Varda (who died in March, at the age of ninety) revisits her career in a work of multilayered self-portraiture. It’s anchored by two recent public appearances; in the first, at an opera house, she makes bold thematic associations that connect ideas in ...
Played at
Glendale 12.20.19 - 12.24.19
Playhouse 7 12.21.19 - 12.22.19
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