Agnès VardaFilmography

Born:: May 30, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Agnès Varda has been called the "Grandmother of the New Wave," a well-meaning if curious tribute for a woman who directed her first feature film at the age of 26. Born in Brussels to a French father and Greek mother, Varda studied literature and psychology at the Sorbonne, and art history at the...Read More

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Great Directors

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes

2009
The Beaches of Agnès

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Agnès Varda

Synopsis: Produced and directed by French Left Bank giant Agnès Varda as a summation of her long and enduring career, Agnès' Beaches constitutes a free-floating essay film. It is comprised of various elements that collectively pay homage to Varda's past -- including clips from the director's features Read More

12/17/08
Cinévardaphoto

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Three short films touching on the art and emotional resonance of photography from director Agnès Varda are collected in this compilation feature. Cinévardaphoto features one new film, Ydessa, the Bears and Etc..., a profile of Ydessa Hendeles, a Canadian photo collector who has curated exhibitions Read More

2/16/05
Ydessa, the Bears and Etc...

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

2004
Janela Da Alma

Actors: Evgen Bavcar, Antonio Cicero, Arnaldo Godoy, Walter Lima, Jr., Hermeto Pascoal

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage "the eyes are the windows to the soul" as they explore vision and perception in their 2002 documentary A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul). Beginning with an interview with Brazilian jazz musician Hermeto Pascoal, Carvalho Read More

2003
Le Lion volatil

Crew: Director

2003
The Truth About Charlie

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Park Joong-Hoon

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this stylish romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) has been having second thoughts about her marriage to the often enigmatic art dealer Charlie (Stephen Dillane Read More

10/25/02
Deux Ans Apres

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

2002
The Gleaners and I

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda takes digital camcorder in hand and roams about the French countryside in search of "gleaners." An age-old practice, as depicted in Millet's famous painting, performed traditionally by peasant women, gleaners scavenged the remains of a crop after the harvest. Varda Read More

3/7/01
A Hundred and One Nights

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
The World of Jacques Demy

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

1995
Les Demoiselles Ont Eu 25 Ans

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Mag Bodard, Catherine Deneuve, Bernard Evein, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: In 1967, the phenomenally successful director of the films Lola and the groundbreaking musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, arrived in the little port town of Rochefort and, together with his art director, decorated the whole town in cheerful, almost surreal fashion for the filming Read More

1993
Jacquot de Nantes

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte de Villepoix, Daniel Dublet

Synopsis: A year after the untimely death of her husband and fellow filmmaker Jacques Demy, director Agnès Varda produced this film based on Demy's memoirs. Focusing on Demy's childhood, Jacquot de Nantes explores the Les Parapluies de Cherbourg director's burgeoning fascination with film as a boy and Read More

1991
Jane B. Par Agnes V.

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as one of the nude models in Blow-Up to her pinnacle as Read More

1988
Kung Fu Master

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon, Eva Simonet

Synopsis: Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of a handsome 15-year-old, played by Mathieu Demy. Their Read More

1987
T'as de beaux escaliers, tu sais

Crew: Director

1986
Vagabond

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Meril, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau, Laurence Cortadellas, Marthe Jarnias

Synopsis: Vagabond, directed by Agnes Varda is the dark disturbing story of a female drifter named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire). The film opens as Mona's frozen body is found in a drainage ditch and proceeds to tell her story in a series of flashbacks and semi-documentary style "interviews" with the people who Read More

1985
Les Dites cariatides

Crew: Director

1984
7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir

Crew: Director

1984
Une minute pour une image [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Director

1983
Ulysse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1982
Documenteur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok, Tom Taplin

Synopsis: An unhappy Frenchwoman is living in Los Angeles, alone with her son now that her boyfriend has left for good. She works typing for a filmmaker, on a beach that is as bleak and desolate as she feels at this juncture in her life. The daily routine is hard to bear in the face of her loneliness, and Read More

1981
Murs, Murs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When French director Agnes Varda moved to Los Angeles for awhile, she was fascinated by the many oversized murals that decorate the city's walls in certain sectors. This documentary is a record of many of the murals, and contains interviews with artists and patrons - in some cases, the murals are Read More

1981
Plaisir d'amour en iran

Crew: Director

1977
L'Une Chante, l'Autre Pas

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valérie Mairesse, Ali Raffi, Therese Liotard, Robert Dadies, Jean-Pierre Pellegrin

Synopsis: In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline (Valerie Mairesse) is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her very conventional family. Suzanne (Therese Liotard) is several years older, a country girl Read More

1977
Réponses de femmes

Crew: Director

1975
Daguerreotypes

Crew: Director

1974
Lions Love

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Viva, Jerome Ragni, James Rado, Shirley Clarke, Carlos Clarens

Synopsis: Agnes Varda directed this drama which combines formal dramatic structures with the openness of improvisational cinema verite. Independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke plays an avant-garde film director attempting to work with a major studio to finance her next project, in which she hopes to Read More

1969
Les Creatures

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Charrier, Eva Dahlbeck, Nino Castelnuovo

Synopsis: French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda writes and directs the intellectual drama Les Creatures. Michel Piccoli plays a novelist who gets in a severe car accident. He is injured and his wife (Catherine Deneuve) is rendered mute. They move to a small village on an island in order to recuperate, and Read More

1969
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) live in the small coastal town of Read More

1967
Loin du Vietnam

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out that the U.S. is radically divided Read More

1967
Uncle Yanco

Crew: Driver

1967
Elsa la rose

Crew: Director

1966
Le Bonheur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Sandrine Drouot, Olivier Drouot

Synopsis: Le Bonheur was French director Agnes Varda's first color film. To critics who carped that her choice of hues was not "realistic", she responded that she was choosing the hues that were best suited psychologically to her story. The film's protagonist is a young, married carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot Read More

1965
Salut les Cubains

Crew: Director, Still Photographer

1963
Cleo from 5 to 7

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various Read More

4/11/62
Du Cote de la Cote

Crew: Director

1958
The Riviera - Today's Eden

Crew: Director

1958
L'Opera Mouffe

Crew: Director

1958
O Saisons, O Chateux

Crew: Director

1957
Le Long Des Troittors

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Montfort, Philippe Noiret

1956
La Pointe Courte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: At the time of its release, much was made of the fact that La Point Courte was directed by a mere "25-year-old girl". That girl was professional photographer Agnes Varda, later hosannahed by aficionados as "The Grandmother of the New Wave." Covering a wide ranging of sociopolitical issues, Varda's Read More

1955

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