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1. lareviewofbooks.org › article › more-than-an-objectMore Than an Object of Vardolatry | Los Angeles Review of Books

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   5 days ago · WHEN THE ARTIST Agnès Varda died in 2019 at the age of 90, she left behind an incalculably massive body of work. Varda began her creative career as a photographer, but soon started making films ...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2024/07/29 › booksBook Review: ‘A Complicated Passion,’ by Carrie Rickey - The ...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in 2019 at the age of 90, was so revered that her final decade was one long victory lap of honorary awards, retrospectives and interviews. Even she grew ...

3. www.criterion.com › current › postsOne Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Bodies and Selves

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   May 28, 2019 · While Varda works in a realistic mode, her mise-en-scène is always expressive of the basic conflicts and inner worlds of her characters. When we first meet Pauline, she is a teenager living with her parents. Like many middle-class Paris apartments, theirs is small, crowded with furniture, photographs, and bric-a-brac, all carefully placed.

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   Aug 13, 2024 · French filmmaker Agnes Varda (1928–2019) revolutionized the world of film with her distinctive style, giving rise to the French New Wave and transforming American indie cinema. In A Complicated Passion , film critic Carrie Rickey delves into Varda’s charmed life and indelible work. Rickey reveals the “complicated passions” that informed ...

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5. hyperallergic.com › 941890 › agnes-varda-pragmaticAgnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer - Hyperallergic

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   Sep 2, 2024 · Agnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer. The first major biography of the film director, screenwriter, artist, and photographer is scrupulous and affectionate. Carrie Rickey cried when her professor ...

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6. screenqueens.wordpress.com › 2020/07/28 › revisitingRevisiting the Summery Domestic Horrors of Agnès Varda’s ‘Le ...

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   Jul 28, 2020 · Varda never makes it clear whether the character committed suicide or accidentally drowned during an impulsive swim. No matter how the incident happened, Francois’ idealistic metaphor of the apple trees has been turned on its head — rather than his adulterous escapades resulting in a natural over pouring of familial joy, he has inadvertently created a situation that led to his wife’s death.

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   Is Agnès Varda still alive?

   • The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in 2019 at the age of 90, was so revered that her final decade was one long victory lap of honorary awards, retrospectives and interviews. Even she grew tired of hearing about herself. “No. No! It’s enough! I’m not a religion. I’m still alive,” she said onstage, after a particularly fulsome introduction.

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   Is Agnès Varda a religion?

   • A COMPLICATED PASSION: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, by Carrie Rickey The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in 2019 at the age of 90, was so revered that her final decade was one long victory lap of honorary awards, retrospectives and interviews. Even she grew tired of hearing about herself. “No. No! It’s enough! I’m not a religion.

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   Did Agnès Varda like blunt endings?

   • Agnès Varda liked blunt endings. Her films don’t wind down, or build to a grand finale. They simply stop—cut!—like a held breath. That was what it felt like, on Friday, to wake up to the news that Varda had died at the age of ninety: a sudden shock, a rupture without needless preamble or false ceremony.

   “While I Live, I Remember”: Agnès Varda’s Way of Seeing

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   Who was Agnès Varda?

   • Agnès Varda was known as the Godmother of French New Wave cinema, but she charted a course unlike any other. Her wave was her own. Paul Grandsard / Anzenberger / Redux Agnès Varda liked blunt endings. Her films don’t wind down, or build to a grand finale. They simply stop—cut!—like a held breath.

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   Did Varda know a lot of people?

   • Varda seemed to know everyone. She was close to Jim Morrison, for example, a former film student and the frontman for the Doors, whom she’d met in Los Angeles. When he died of a drug overdose in Paris, in 1971, she was among the first to arrive at his apartment.

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   What was Varda's style after he died?

   • After he died from AIDS, she made a film about him and his work. Varda’s own style was to have no overt style. Her films were lightly scripted when they were scripted at all. She counted on serendipitous accidents and knew how to take advantage of them.

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   Mar 30, 2019 · Her films don’t wind down, or build to a grand finale. They simply stop—cut!—like a held breath. That was what it felt like, on Friday, to wake up to the news that Varda had died at the age ...