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Agnès Varda (French: [aɲɛs vaʁda] ⓘ; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. [ 1 ] Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on ...
Mar 29, 2019 · O Saisons, O Chateaux (1957) was about the castles of the Loire valley; L’Opéra Mouffe (1958) was a lyrical evocation of the Parisian street-market in Rue Mouffetard as seen through the eyes of a pregnant woman (Varda was pregnant at the time); and Du Côté de la Côte (1958) was a fresh and irreverent approach to the French Riviera.
- Early Life
- Photography Career
- Filmmaking Career
- Style and Influences
- Personal Life and Death
- Awards and Honors
- Retrospectives
Varda was born Arlette Varda on 30 May 1928 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, to Christiane (née Pasquet) and Eugène Jean Varda, an engineer. Her mother was from Sète, France, and her father was a member of a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor. She was the third of five children. Varda legally changed her first name to Agnès at age 18. During Wo...
Varda intended to become a museum curator, and studied art history at the École du Louvre, but decided to study photography at the Vaugirard School of Photography instead. She began her career as a still photographer before becoming one of the major voices of the Left Bank Cinema and the French New Wave. She maintained a fluid interrelationship bet...
Varda's filmmaking career predates the French New Wave, but contains many elements specific to that movement. While working as a photographer, Varda became interested in making a film, although she stated that she knew little about the medium and had only seen around 20 films by the age of 25. She later said that she wrote her first screenplay "jus...
Many of Varda's films use protagonists that are marginalized or rejected members of society, and are documentary in nature. She made a short film on the Black Panthers after seeing that their leader, Huey Newton, was arrested for killing a policeman. The film focuses on demonstrations in support of Newton and the "Free Huey" campaign. Like many oth...
In 1958, while living in Paris, Varda met her future husband, Jacques Demy, also a French director. They moved in together in 1959. She was married to Demy from 1962 until his death in 1990. Varda had two children: a daughter, Rosalie Varda (born 1958), from a previous union with actor Antoine Bourseiller (who starred in Cléo from 5 to 7), and a so...
Varda was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 and a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1983. In 2002 she was the recipient of the French Academy prize, René Clair Award. On 4 March 2007, she was appointed a Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of France. On 12 April 2009, she was made Commandeur de la Lég...
Agnès Vardaat Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden. June 2, 2013 – August 18, 2013. Varda: A Retrospectiveat the Lincoln Center, New York, December 20, 2019 – January 6, 2020.
The figure in the landscape, seen in and as a welcoming light of openness, remained Varda’s invitation to the viewer across her oeuvre: often the figure of her own body, starting with her second film, Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958). Beaches and Varda par Agnès were the culmination of a lifetime of making film with what was close at hand ...
Mar 29, 2019 · Agnès Varda: 1928-2019. Few world cinema figures were as beloved in recent years as Agnès Varda, a Belgian-born director of French cinema who brought an irresistibly restrained sort of wacky charm to all of her public appearances and her appearances in front of the camera in so many of her documentaries. She made only eight or so narrative ...
Arlette Varda was born in Brussels on May 30, 1928, to a Greek father and a French mother. Her family fled to Sete during World War II, and she changed her first name to Agnès at 18. In 1962, she married director Jacques Demy (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”), with whom she had a son. Earlier, she had a daughter with actor Antoine Bourseiller ...
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Apr 1, 2019 · A rebel from a young age, Varda changed her name from Arlette to Agnès at the age of 18, and ran away in the summer to take a job on a fishing boat. In the 1950s, director Alain Resnais introduced her to the members of Les Cahiers du Cinema, and she made her first feature, La Pointe Courte , which took her back to Sète, the fishing town where she grew up.
