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1 day ago · Martin Scorsese was a fan of a director who contributed to the French New Wave films. If you are guessing François Truffaut or Jean-Luc Godard, you’re so wrong. Scorsese admired the films of female director Agnès Varda, who was known for her film Cléo from 5 to 7. The Departed director struck up a friendship with Varda in the ’70s and ...
3 days ago · Agnes Varda challenges the construction of femininity in Cléo de 5 á 7, through a linear narrative that follows a Cléo from passive to active observer. Throughout this narrative Varda reflexively constructs and deconstructs femininities, highlighting the struggle for self-determination in 1960s France, during a period of political uncertainty and the prelude to the Women’s Liberation Movement.
2 days ago · In A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, Rickey looks at not just Varda’s filmography, but also how she became such a public-facing individual who embodied the politics she ...
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2 days ago · Varda inspired many directors during her long career, and Scorsese didn’t hesitate to sing her praises. In the book Agnes Varda: Director’s Inspiration, Scorsese called the filmmaker “one of the gods of cinema.” He explained that they became friends in the early 1970s and she would often show up while he was filming, although she ...
4 days ago · Filmmaker Agnes Varda shaped the French New Wave in the ‘60s, and was known as a “punk grandma” in her later years. A new biography traces her art-filled life. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide you with local news, music discovery, and cultural connection. Stay up to date with all ...
2 days ago · The grandmother of the French New Wave herself, Agnès Varda, peeking out from a poster of her Criterion box set, Naomi Watts and Laura Harring floating like ghosts over a Hollywood skyline in a ...
2 days ago · Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later.
