Agnès Varda
French filmmaker born in 1928, Agnès Varda spent her childhood in Belgium and then in Sète. After studying at the Beaux Arts and the École du Louvre, she became the photographer for the Théâtre National Populaire alongside Jean Vilar in the 1950s. She shot her first feature film in 1954, La pointe courte, which made her part of the New Wave cinema. The rest of her career will be rich of 33 titles, fictions or documentaries, among which we can mention classics such as Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961), Vagabond (1985), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches of Agnès (2009). Her entire cinematographic work was rewarded with an honorary César in 2001, the René-Clair prize of the French Academy in 2002, a Palme d'honneur at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and an honorary Oscar in 2017. Agnès passed away at her home, rue Daguerre, surrounded by her family, collaborators and friends, not to mention her cats, on March 29th, 2019.
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The Beaches of Agnès
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By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
Salut les Cubains
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In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro took power, Agnès Varda returned from Cuba with 1,800 black-and-white photos and turned them into a didactic and entertaining documentary.
Along the Coast
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A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
The So-called Caryatids
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A documentary on the statues of women adorning the walls of Paris, *The So-called Caryatids* is a commissioned film for television, nicely hijacked by the queen of digression, who knew how to unearth beauty where it is no longer seen.
The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later
The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later
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Agnès Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her film.
The Gleaners & I
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All over France, Agnès Varda has met gleaners, reclaimers, collectors and finders. By necessity, chance or choice, they are in contact with the remains of others. Their universe is surprising. Potatoes, apples and other discarded foods, objects without masters and clocks without hands, this is the gleaning of our time. But Varda is also the gleaner of the title and her documentary is subjective...
Black Panthers
En été 1968, les Black Panthers d'Oakland ont fait plusieurs rallyes d'information à propos du procès d'un de leurs leaders Huey Newton. Ils voulaient – et ils ont réussi – attirer l'attention des Américains et mobiliser les consciences noires à l'occasion de ce procès politique. En 1968, Varda filme les manifestations de soutien organisées autour du procès. C’est l’occasion pour la cinéaste de...
Daguerréotypes
« *Daguerréotypes* n’est pas un film sur la rue Daguerre, pittoresque rue du 14e arrondissement, c’est un film sur un petit morceau de cette rue, entre le numéro 70 et le numéro 90, c’est un document modeste et local sur quelques petits commerçants, un regard attentif sur la majorité silencieuse. C’est un album de quartier, ce sont des portraits stéréo-daguerréotypés, ce sont des archives pour ...
Jacquot de Nantes
There once was a boy who was raised in a garage where everybody liked to sing. It was 1939, he was eight years old, he liked puppets and operettas. And he wanted to make films, but his father made him study to be a mechanic. It's about Jacques Demy and his memories. Jacquot de Nantes tells of a happy childhood, despite the events taking place in wartime and its aftermath. Agnès Varda's challeng...
The Beaches of Agnès
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By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
Salut les Cubains
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In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro took power, Agnès Varda returned from Cuba with 1,800 black-and-white photos and turned them into a didactic and entertaining documentary.
Along the Coast
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A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
The So-called Caryatids
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A documentary on the statues of women adorning the walls of Paris, *The So-called Caryatids* is a commissioned film for television, nicely hijacked by the queen of digression, who knew how to unearth beauty where it is no longer seen.
The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later
The Gleaners & I: Two Years Later
Duration: 1h03Subscription access
Agnès Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her film.
The Gleaners & I
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All over France, Agnès Varda has met gleaners, reclaimers, collectors and finders. By necessity, chance or choice, they are in contact with the remains of others. Their universe is surprising. Potatoes, apples and other discarded foods, objects without masters and clocks without hands, this is the gleaning of our time. But Varda is also the gleaner of the title and her documentary is subjective...
Black Panthers
En été 1968, les Black Panthers d'Oakland ont fait plusieurs rallyes d'information à propos du procès d'un de leurs leaders Huey Newton. Ils voulaient – et ils ont réussi – attirer l'attention des Américains et mobiliser les consciences noires à l'occasion de ce procès politique. En 1968, Varda filme les manifestations de soutien organisées autour du procès. C’est l’occasion pour la cinéaste de...
Daguerréotypes
« *Daguerréotypes* n’est pas un film sur la rue Daguerre, pittoresque rue du 14e arrondissement, c’est un film sur un petit morceau de cette rue, entre le numéro 70 et le numéro 90, c’est un document modeste et local sur quelques petits commerçants, un regard attentif sur la majorité silencieuse. C’est un album de quartier, ce sont des portraits stéréo-daguerréotypés, ce sont des archives pour ...
Jacquot de Nantes
There once was a boy who was raised in a garage where everybody liked to sing. It was 1939, he was eight years old, he liked puppets and operettas. And he wanted to make films, but his father made him study to be a mechanic. It's about Jacques Demy and his memories. Jacquot de Nantes tells of a happy childhood, despite the events taking place in wartime and its aftermath. Agnès Varda's challeng...
