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Agnès Varda (French: [aɲɛs vaʁda] ⓘ; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. [1]Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on ...
La Pointe Courte [la pwɛ̃t kuʁt] is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda (in her feature film directorial debut). It has been cited by many critics as a forerunner of the French New Wave, [1] with the historian Georges Sadoul calling it "truly the first film of the nouvelle vague". [2] The film takes place in Sète in the south ...
Cléo from 5 to 7 (French: Cléo de 5 à 7) is a 1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Agnès Varda. [2]The film follows Florence, played by Corinne Marchand, a young singer known professionally as "Cléo Victoire", from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on June 21, as she waits to hear the results of a biopsy that will possibly confirm a diagnosis of stomach cancer.
Faces Places received widespread acclaim from critics. [3] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 99% of 144 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 8.8/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Equal parts breezily charming and poignantly powerful, Faces Places is a unique cross-generational portrait of life in rural France from the great Agnès Varda."
Documenteur also known as Documenteur: An Emotion Picture is a French-American feature film by French director Agnès Varda. The film debuted at the 1981 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] The film stars Sabine Mamou as a single mother and Varda's son Mathieu Demy as her son.
Mk2 Films is co-representing the documentary feature with Cinétévé Sales. “Viva Varda!” will be first portrait of the Honorary Oscar recipient that’s not directed […] New Wave Icon ...
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A brief overview of the life and cinema of the French director, screenwriter, photographer, and installation artist Agnès Varda.Her work has been pioneering and central to the development of the highly influential French New Wave cinematic movement of the 1950s and 1960s.