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Doors: 12:00 PM
Film 12:30 PM
VARDA BY AGNÈS
dir. Agnès Varda
year. 2019
country. France
run-time. 115 mins
rating. 15
Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Agnès Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In Varda by Agnès — the director’s final film — she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate her unique artistic visions and ideas. Playful, revealing and endearing, discover the inimitable genius of a true icon of world cinema.
When Varda by Agnès premiered out of competition at the Berlin International Film Festival this February, the press notes suggested that the 90-year-old director might be growing tired. The documentary, a self-guided tour through Varda’s back catalogue, was intended as a farewell to filmmaking, as well as a masterclass that could be shown in lieu of an in-person talk. “I don’t want to do press, I don’t want to speak about my work,” read the notes. “After Berlin, the film will be shown instead of me speaking!”
These words assume a retrospective significance in the wake of Varda’s death on 29 March last year. What had seemed like a coy withdrawal on the part of the once apparently indefatigable cineaste now appears prophetic. “I wonder if the only real portrait isn’t a death mask,” she pondered during Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987). Varda by Agnès, we now know, is Varda’s swansong – and the final edit and the last word on her more-than-60-year career.
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