Title: Varda by Agnes Year: 2019 Director: Agnes Varda Cast: Agnes Varda, Sandinne Boinnaire, Nurith Aviv Synopsis: Varda’s final film is equal parts cinematic elegy and charming look at her career as an artist both on and off-screen. Critique: The...
The opening titles of Agnès Varda’s final film, Varda by Agnès, are backdropped by stills from her films; there are beaches, gleaners, couples in the throes of happiness, etc. So, if you didn’t know beforehand, you’d realize pretty quickly that...
Agnès Varda’s 1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is set largely in 1972, making it something of a short-haul period piece. The period Varda is regarding is the early 1970s feminist movement in France, which she frames, at first glance,...
Unfolding in realish time (the movie is actually half an hour shorter than the timeframe described by the title), Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 is a deceptively slight movie that towers in cinema history due to its of-the-moment...
On Monday, grieving from the news in Las Vegas and the sheer hopelessness of genuinely trying to prevent another such tragedy from happening here, I went to see Agnès Varda’s new film, Faces Places. And for just under 90 minutes...
