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Agnès Varda
Director 1928 - 2019

Agnès Varda

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

25 titles
Visages villages

Visages villages

Agnès Varda, JR 2017 1h 34m 7.3

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Les plages d'Agnès

Les plages d'Agnès

Agnès Varda 2008 1h 50m 8.3

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier

Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier

Agnès Varda 2006 1h 9m

Documentary about the widows on the island Noirmoutier. Agnès Varda listens to them, films them, each one of them talks about her emotions, life, etc.

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après

Agnès Varda 2002 1h 3m

Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Agnès Varda 2000 1h 22m 8.7

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma

Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma

Agnès Varda 1995 1h 45m

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

L'univers de Jacques Demy

L'univers de Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda 1995 1h 30m 8.0

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans

Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans

Agnès Varda 1993 1h 5m

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film Les demoiselles de Rochefort.

Jacquot de Nantes

Jacquot de Nantes

Agnès Varda 1991 1h 58m 8.0

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

Kung-fu master!

Kung-fu master!

Agnès Varda 1988 1h 20m

Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy.

Jane B. par Agnès V.

Jane B. par Agnès V.

Agnès Varda 1988 1h 39m

A portrait of actress Jane Birkin.

Sans toit ni loi

Sans toit ni loi

Agnès Varda 1985 1h 46m 6.8

The story of a young woman, a vagabond, who wanders through French wine country one winter.

Mur murs

Mur murs

Agnès Varda 1981 1h 22m

Agnes Varda's documentary on murals in Los Angeles.

Documenteur

Documenteur

Agnès Varda 1981 1h 5m 8.0

A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son.

L'une chante, l'autre pas

L'une chante, l'autre pas

Agnès Varda 1977 2h 2m

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Daguerréotypes

Daguerréotypes

Agnès Varda 1976 1h 20m

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

Lions Love

Lions Love

Agnès Varda 1969 1h 50m

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Black Panthers

Black Panthers

Agnès Varda 1968 28m

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.

Oncle Yanco

Oncle Yanco

Agnès Varda 1967 18m

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

Loin du Vietnam

Loin du Vietnam

Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch 1967 1h 56m

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

Les créatures

Les créatures

Agnès Varda 1966 1h 34m

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Le bonheur

Le bonheur

Agnès Varda 1965 1h 20m 8.6

François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.

Cléo de 5 à 7

Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda 1962 1h 30m 8.7

Agnès Vardas’ first feature film is an hour an a half from the life of singer Cléo in which she walks through Paris while waiting the results of a cancer test. The film showed the Nouvelle Vague the first woman to become famous from the film school.

L'opéra-mouffe

L'opéra-mouffe

Agnès Varda 1958 16m

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

La Pointe-Courte

La Pointe-Courte

Agnès Varda 1955 1h 20m

The troubled relationship of a married couple on vacation brushes beside the ongoing conflict between fishing families and the authorities in La Pointe-Courte, Séte.

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