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French film director Agnès Varda – an icon of feminist cinema and the sole female director to emerge from the French New Wave of the 1960s – has died at the age of 90, her family has confirmed.
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Agnès Varda died in March of this year at age 90, just a month after premiering her final and most autobiographical film yet, Varda by Agnès, at the Berlin Film Festival. Those who saw her there ...
When director Agnès Varda came out with her 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, co-directed with the artist JR, many people assumed it would be her final film. In her late 80s at that ...
Agnes Varda is deservedly eulogized in newspapers and on social media all over America today, but critics, programmers and audiences in the U.S. took time in recognizing her accomplishments.
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Varda had always been quick to adopt new technology ... the subject of her film “Jane B. par Agnes V.” She had no use for the usual cinematic vocabulary of sexualized female bodies, she ...
Agnès Varda, the influential matriarch of the French New Wave who received an honorary Oscar and an Academy Award documentary nomination in the span of three months in 2017-18, has died.