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Filmmaker Agnès Varda and friend.

Agnès Varda Hits the Beach

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Alex Simon

Born in Belgium in 1928, Agnès Varda is renowned for being the only female member of France’s legendary “Nouvelle Vague” (which also includes such luminaries as Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Varda’s late husband, Jacques Demy) school of filmmaking when, in 1954, she formed a film company called Cine-Tamaris for her first feature, La Pointe Courte. It earned her the title of “Grand Mother of the French New Wave,” at the tender age of 26.

Varda has made 33 films since then, alternating between shorts and features, fiction and documentaries. Some of her most famous titles include Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961), Le Bonheur (1964), One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977), Vagabond (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1990), and The Gleaners and I (2000). Since 2003, Varda has completed two major video installations for the Venice Art Biennale and the Taipei Museum, as well as serving on »

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