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Varda was born Arlette Varda on 30 May 1928 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, to Christiane (née Pasquet) and Eugène Jean Varda, an engineer. [4] Her mother was from Sète , France, and her father was a member of a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor in the Ottoman Empire .
Agnès Varda was born on 30 May 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on 29 March 2019 in Paris, France.
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Agnes Varda, French director and photographer whose first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), was a precursor of the French New Wave movies of the 1960s. Her other notable movies included Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961) and Happiness (1964) and the documentaries The Gleaners and I (2000) and Faces Places (2017).
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Mar 29, 2019 · Agnès Varda, who died this week, at the age of ninety, is one of the filmmakers who brought about the revolution in personal cinema. She led it from a very early age, virtually off the radar of...
Mar 30, 2019 · Varda lived long enough to see herself celebrated as the feminist lodestar she was by generations of younger women, though she was not entirely satisfied with this distinction.
- Alexandra Schwartz
Apr 1, 2019 · A gnès Varda passed away on Thursday at the age of ninety, and she leaves behind one of the most varied and restless oeuvres in cinema, ranging from urgently political work and intimate portraits of family and friends to films that played with new possibilities in the medium.
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Jan 21, 2008 · Back in the early 1950s, after studying philosophy and art in Paris, and working as a photographer, the young Varda decided to make a film set in la Pointe Courte. The area is a neighborhood of Sète, a city located in an unusual, marshy region between sea and lagoon—the étang de Thau—on the western Mediterranean coast.
