Agnès Varda
Agnes Varda is a French film director who was part of the French New Wave. She was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2017 and an honorary Cesar in 2001. She received a Golden Lion for “Vagabond” (1985) at the Venice Film Festival. In recent years, she has abandoned features for documentary essays, poetic in form and universal in meaning.
Films
- Visages villages90’
Famous French film director Agnès Varda and a well-known photographer and muralist, known only by his initials JR. They share a common passion for images – questioning the way they are shown, in particular. Varda chose cinema, JR chose to create open-air photographic galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to shoot a film in France, away from big cities. This is how their documentary road movie came to be – a portrait of slowly fading French villages and their inhabitants.
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