Agnès Varda died yesterday. Though wildly famous in France, she was never particularly well known in the United States. She was one of the founders of the French New Wave, mostly known for using amateur actors and shooting on location at the height of the studio system. Like Stanley Kubrick, she started as a successful photographer and used that visual training on her films. Also like Kubrick, she was not prolific, preferring quality over quantity. Like most French auteurs, she directed, wrote and often edited her films.
La Pointe Courte
Cléo de 5 à 7
Le Bonheur
L'une chante, l'autre pas
Sans toit ni loi
Le petit amour, written with Jane Birkin
Jacquot de Nantes
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
She made more documentaries than feature films, which might be one reason she was never more famous.
Loin du Vietnam
Black Panthers
Mur Murs
Documenteur
Jane B. par Agnès V., written with Jane Birkin
Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Les plages d'Agnès
Visages Villages
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