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The Beaches of Agnes
2008, 110 min

This is a most real autobiography, in which the director talks about her films and her life, beginning from childhood. Agnes Varda believes unconditionally in the simple idea of "life", but that which seems simple, hides the complexity of directing.

Agnes Varda:

Any film, in one way or another, tells something about itself, about the director - even a documentary. Any artist, when writing a self-portrait, is looking into a mirror. And, for that reason, at one point I allowed myself to shoot "The Beaches of Agnes", a documentary self-portrait. I started "The Beaches of Agnes" with the scene with the mirrors on the beach. The mirror, after all, is the most important tool of the self-portraitist. I put "The Beaches of Agnes" together from the multiple "I", reflected in the people I have met in my life. I would call this "small world Agnes Varda". In the end, making this self-portrait, talking about my life, I was at the same time talking about a great many things.  The film becomes life and life becomes a film.

Agnes Varda

Born May 30, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium. In her first film, which she made at the age of 26, Agnes Varda told the story of the relationship between an unhappy pair of workers from a small fishing town. The expressive experimental style of the film, with its focus on social problems and documentary realism, became the director's calling card. That is precisely why Agnes Ward is considered the harbinger of the  French "New Wave". Together with Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Henri Colpy, she took part in the "Left Bank" (Rive Gauche) cinematic movement .