Varda par Agnès
Synopsis
Varda by Agnès, the last film by the late great Agnès Varda, is a typically joyous, digressive, and revealing ramble through the director’s work, based on a series of lectures she gave in the last years of her life. Composed of numerous clips from Varda’s films and public appearances, as well as extensive documentation of her gallery installations, the film provides both an introduction to and a summation of the extraordinary achievement of the woman who kicked off the French New Wave with La Pointe Courte, a groundbreaking, independently financed mix of poetic realism and documentary, and continued to make epochal narrative films (Cleo from 5 to 7; One Sings, the Other Doesn’t; Vagabond) and pioneering documentary works that combined a boundless curiosity about the world and a generous art of self-revelation (The Gleaners and I; Faces Places). But as anyone who has ever seen an Agnès Varda movie knows, Varda would not simply be satisfied with retreading her accomplishments: this is a film as open to the future as it is to the past, full of insight and inspiration for young filmmakers, artists, and thinkers, and imbued with Varda’s incomparable swiftness of thought and warmth of feeling.
Introduction
Watch this introduction by Lynn Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of French at UWG.
Event with Rosalie Varda
Join us on March 25 at 3:00 p.m. EST for a discussion with French film producer and costume designer Rosalie Varda, French daughter of Agnès Varda. Co-sponsored by the College of Art, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry (CACSI) and the Department of English, Film, Languages, and Performing Arts.
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Scheduled Viewing
On-demand screening, March 3-10
Screen the film anytime between March 3-10 on-demand at the link below.
Distributor- Janus Films
Platform- Eventive
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Credits
DIRECTOR
Agnès Varda
SCREENPLAY
Agnès Varda
CAST
Agnès Varda
Overview
Documentary
French
120 min.
France
2019
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