THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Les plages d’Agnès) is an enticingly unusual documentary from critically acclaimed filmmaker Agnès Varda, best known for making films like CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND. Varda ...

Agnès Varda manages to be full of herself without seeming … full of herself. Perhaps that’s because her self is full of so much other stuff: friends, photos, films, buildings, and beaches. The Beaches ...

Is the 81-year-old Agnes Varda a tireless self-promoter or self-eulogizer? After watching her lyrical, free-associative autobiography “The Beaches of Agnes” it might seem silly to even bother creating ...

Is the 81-year-old Agnes Varda a tireless self-promoter or self-eulogizer? After watching her lyrical, free-associative autobiography “The Beaches of Agnes” it might seem silly to even bother creating ...

The interplay of past and present in Agnès Varda’s films reaches its apogee with this memoir drawing on the 81-year-old artist’s oeuvre as well as her recollections. The Beaches of Agnès documents ...

Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins star as Popes Francis I and Benedict XVI in 'The Two Popes' Credit: Photo via Netflix The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, ...

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Approaching 80, Agnes Varda has resolved to film her memoirs in her own inimitable fashion, presenting a strange cocktail of film clips, commissioned photographs, eulogies, family snapshots, ...

Filmmakers don't usually do documentaries about themselves, but Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes is good enough to start a trend. Varda celebrates her own life with a freedom that no other ...

Returning to the beaches which have been parts of her life, Varda invents a kind of auto-filmo-documentary. Agnès stages herself among excerpts of her films, images and reportages. She shares with ...

Setting up mirrors with a film crew on a Belgian beach, Agnes Varda sets about telling the story of "a little old lady, pleasantly plump." That little old lady turns out to be Varda, who made the ...

When she was not quite 80, Agnès Varda, one of the seminal filmmakers of the French New Wave, decided to take a look at her life, with the resulting film a lovely bit of memory and mischief. Now in ...