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Varda by Agnès

Varda par Agnès
Agnès Varda
France
2019
115 min
Dutch Premiere
Festival history

Agnès Varda, the amiable “grandmother of the French New Wave,” is as dazzling as ever in this, her swan song. Seated on a theater stage, she talks about her life and career and uses scenes from her rich body of work to shed light on her artistic vision and ideas. In addition to her films, Varda by Agnès explores her photographic work and her later development as an installation artist.

Varda talks about classics from her analogue period, such as her iconic 1954 debut La pointe courte. And when discussing a series of tracking shots that connect various episodes in her minor box office hit Vagabond, she reveals: “I wanted to put in an enigma that only I knew the secret to.” She looks back with equal pleasure on the flop One Hundred and One Nights. In 2000, she started using a digital camera and discovered—in The Gleaners and I—that it allowed her to get even closer to the central subject of all her work: people. 

Credits
Director
Production
    Rosalie Varda for Ciné Tamaris
    Rosalie Varda for Ciné Tamaris
Involved TV Channel
    ARTE France
    ARTE France
Co-production
    HBB26,
    Scarlett Productions,
    mk2 Films
    HBB26,
    Scarlett Productions,
    mk2 Films
Cinematography
    François Décréau,
    Claire Duguet,
    Julia Fabry
    François Décréau,
    Claire Duguet,
    Julia Fabry
Editing
Sound
    David Chaulier,
    Alan Savary
    David Chaulier,
    Alan Savary
World Sales
    mk2 Films
    mk2 Films
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cinéart Nederland BV
    Cinéart Nederland BV
Screening copy
    Cinéart Nederland BV
    Cinéart Nederland BV

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