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Cleo from 5 to 7 and Le Bonheur among highlights of Agnès Varda retrospective

Cleo from 5 to 7 and Le Bonheur among highlights of Agnès Varda retrospective

12 May 2010

French New Wave filmmaking goddess Varda is honoured in both cities this fortnight with comprehensive retrospectives of her feature and documentary work. Highlights include a new digitally restored print of her blinding 1962 exercise in cinema truth…

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Central Office of Information and Agnes Varda among DVD highlights

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(3 stars)3 Feb 2010

(15) 116min Director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) returns to the scene of one of his early successes with this feature film adaptation of the 1985 BBC television series that helped make his name. Mel Gibson (in his…

The Beaches of Agnes

The Beaches of Agnes

Playfully eccentric feminist biopic

(4 stars)17 Sep 2009

If this idiosyncratic cinematic self-portrait is indeed Agnes Varda’s final film, it’s an illuminating and poignant adieu. The Belgian-born octogenarian film-maker ‘walks backwards’ through her life, narrating and drawing on clips from her own films and…

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

The considerable career of the ‘grandmother’ of Le Nouvelle Vague

17 Sep 2009

There are rumours that Agnès Varda’s 2008 cinematic autobiography The Beaches of Agnès is her last film. For any octogenarian filmmaker, this might seem like the logical conclusion to a prolific career, but Varda is no ordinary artist. When she…

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