Agnès Varda
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Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French film director based in Paris and one of the key figures in modern film. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary—with a distinct experimental style. She is called the "grandmother of the New Wave" by some.
Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Greek father and French mother. Her father's family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor. For her first film La Pointe courte (editing by Alain Resnais), she drew her inspiration from the region of Sète, where she grew up.[1]. Varda traveled from France to San Francisco and shot a quasi-surreal documentary film on her father's cousin, Jean Varda, titled Uncle Yanko.
For the 1985 documentary-style feature film Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival.
Varda teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland.
[edit] Filmography
- The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002) (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après)
- The Gleaners and I (2000) (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse)
- A Hundred and One Nights (1995) (Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma)
- Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
- Kung-Fu Master (1987) (Le Petit amour)
- Vagabond (1985) (Sans toit ni loi)
- One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) (L'Une chante, l'autre pas)
- Lion's Love (1975)
- Happiness (1965) (Le Bonheur)
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) (Cléo de 5 à 7)
- "La Pointe Courte" (1956)
