Agnès Varda

Varda by Agnès

Varda by Agnès

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, Varda 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—the wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography Varda by Agnès is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.

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Film Info

  • France
  • 2019
  • 119 minutes
  • Black and White/Color
  • Various
  • French

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The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

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$199.96

Varda by Agnès
Credits
Director
Agnès Varda
Written by
Agnès Varda
First chat codirected by
Agnès Varda
First chat codirected by
Didier Rouget
Produced by
Rosalie Varda
Associate produced by
Joey Faré
Associate produced by
Dany Boon
Varda’s right hand
Julia Fabry
Director of production
Cecilia Rose
Editor
Nicolas Longinotti
Cinematography by
Claire Duguet
Cinematography by
Julia Fabry
Cinematography by
François Décréau
Sound
David Chaulier
Sound
Alan Savary
Sound mixer
Boris Chapelle
Edited by
Agnès Varda
Edited by
Nicolas Longinotti

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