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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. books.substack.com › p › review-geoffrey-obrien-onReview: Geoffrey O’Brien on Agnès Varda - Book Post - Substack

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   Aug 28, 2024 · Carrie Rickey’s biography of Agnes Varda, A Complicated Passion, manages, with exceptional art and without ever feeling rushed or perfunctory, to compress into a little more than two hundred pages a very long and very productive artistic life. In a good many biographies the cross-cutting between life and work can seem mechanical; Rickey by contrast shows how life and work can be so ...

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4. kristenhallgeisler.com › blog › 2024Review: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda

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   Aug 12, 2024 · Varda herself seemed to regard her sexuality as a private matter hardly worth mentioning rather than a secret, and Rickey navigates this preference with tact. In the 1960s, Varda was a young single mother who took on projects with the infant Rosalie and a nanny in tow.

5. www.theparisreview.org › on-agnes-vardas-vagabondThe Paris Review - On Agnès Varda’s ‘Vagabond’

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   Jul 9, 2018 · July 9, 2018. On Film. Still from Vagabond, by Agnès Varda. As a teenager, my view of the world was bleak. I was the only one of my small group of misfit friends to leave home and go away to college. Not long before I did, I saw Agnès Varda’s film Vagabond. I can’t remember if I saw it at the local art-house cinema (which went out of ...

6. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-desk“While I Live, I Remember”: Agnès Varda’s Way of Seeing

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   Mar 30, 2019 · Varda has long been called the Godmother of the French New Wave; when she made her first two films, “La Pointe Courte,” in 1955, at the age of twenty-six, and “Cleo from 5 to 7,” in 1961 ...

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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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   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.

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

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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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   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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8. www.criterion.com › current › postsA Woman’s Truth | Current | The Criterion Collection

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   Aug 11, 2020 · A Woman’s Truth. T he poster for the seventy-second Cannes Film Festival, held in May 2019, used a photograph taken during the shooting of Agnès Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte, in 1954. Wearing rolled-up trousers, a shirt, and a straw hat, the director stands barefoot on the back of a crouching male technician, looking intently into ...