It will remain so for the moviegoers as the filmmaker of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda has died in the night from Thursday to Friday, at the age of 90 years. Author of a unique film, its filmsvenaient to be the subject of a beautiful retrospective at the Cinémathèque française. Many times crowned, the history of cinema will remember that she was awarded a golden Lion at the Venice film Festival in 1985, for the remarkable Without roof or law.
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It is obviously impossible to summarize a work film also remarkable, which extends over more than half a century, in a few words. From his first film, The Peak short (1954), she appeared as one of the pioneers of the New Wave. And then Cleo from 5 to 7 in 1961 immortalisera a moving suspense intimate in real time. We cannot pass over in silence the drama film inspired by Without roof or law (1985) with Sandrine Bonnaire, amazing truth in the clothes of a HOMELESS person.
It will also the wonderful Jacquot de Nantes 1990, biography poetic of her husband, Jacques Demy. This filmmaker is open to all genders will also great documentaries. The one she cosigna with the artist JR, Faces, Villages will remain as a model of cinematography.
● Cleo from 5 to 7 Agnes Varda in 1962, with Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray, Jose Luis de Villalonga, Michel Legrand…
● Happiness by Agnès Varda, released in 1965, with Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot…
● one sings, the other not Agnes Varda, in 1977, with Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse…
● Without roof or law , in 1985, Agnès Varda, with Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss…
● Jacquot de Nantes Agnes Varda, in 1991, with Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeau…
● The Marauders and the mound building Agnes Varda, in 2000
● The Beaches of Agnès , by Agnès Varda and released in 2008, with Jacques Demy, Mathieu Demy, Agnès Varda…
● Faces, Villages is a documentary film French films of Agnès Varda and JR, 2017
