Agnès Varda

Born: 1928-05-30

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 style.


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The Young Girls of Rochefort

as Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)
Released: 1967-03-08

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and...

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The Beaches of Agnès

as Self
Released: 2008-12-17

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of...

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Vagabond

as (uncredited)
Released: 1985-12-04

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this,...

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The Truth About Charlie

as The Widow Hyppolite
Released: 2002-10-25

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her...

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The Gleaners and I

as Self
Released: 2000-07-07

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or...

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One Sings, the Other Doesn't

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1977-03-09

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's...

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Faces Places

as Self
Released: 2017-06-28

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

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Hello Cubans

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1963-11-26

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years...

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Jane B. for Agnès V.

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1988-03-02

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired...

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Women Reply

as Self (voice)
Released: 1975-02-12

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A...

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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

as Self
Released: 2018-12-07

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and...

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Lions Love

as Agnès (uncredited)
Released: 1969-10-12

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

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Documenteur

as Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1981-10-02

After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a...

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Varda by Agnès

as Self
Released: 2019-03-28

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light...

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Jacquot

as Narrator (uncredited)
Released: 1991-05-15

Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides...

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The World of Jacques Demy

as Self
Released: 1995-09-22

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

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The Young Girls Turn 25

as Self
Released: 1993-05-19

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband...

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Daguerréotypes

as Narrator
Released: 1975-07-14

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a...

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Henri Langlois vu par...

as Self
Released: 2014-07-27

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

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The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later

as Narrator
Released: 2002-12-18

Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the...

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The So-Called Caryatids

as Narrator
Released: 1984-01-01

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues...

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You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1986-08-27

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French...

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Uncle Yanco

as Self
Released: 1967-01-01

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped...

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Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story

as Self
Released: 2008-12-31

Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their...

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Ulysse

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1986-01-29

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès...

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Far from Vietnam

as Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)
Released: 1967-10-18

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their...

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Great Directors

as Self
Released: 2009-05-19

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci,...

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Mur Murs

as Self / Narrator
Released: 1981-09-13

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror...

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Janela da Alma

as Self
Released: 2001-10-20

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total...

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Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes

as Self
Released: 2005-01-12

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast...

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The Vanishing Lion

as La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)
Released: 2003-03-24

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the...

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Pictures of Europe

as Self
Released: 1990-04-25

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary,...

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The Widows of Noirmoutier

as Self
Released: 2006-10-03

A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et...

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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

as Self
Released: 1964-05-19

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the...

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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-10-22

She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche,...

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Jim Morrison: The End

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2021-07-02

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a...

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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

as Self
Released: 2008-05-18

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

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Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison

as Self (archive footage)
Released:

Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike...

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The Invention of Chris Marker

as self
Released: 2020-05-28

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

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The Story of an Old Lady

as Self
Released: 2003-01-01

A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in...

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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2004-07-03

Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art...

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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda

as Self
Released: 1977-12-31

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE...

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Agnès Varda: From Here to There

as Self
Released: 2011-10-01

Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive...

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In Chris Marker's Studio

as Self
Released: 2011-12-19

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.

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Nausicaa

as Self
Released: 1971-01-01

A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for...

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Souvenirs and Evocations

as Self
Released: 2008-12-31

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.

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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-12-25

This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on...

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The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany

as Self
Released: 2008-01-01

In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A....

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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

as Self
Released: 2000-07-09

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several...

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Quinqui Stars

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-11-30

QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the...

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Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments

as Narrator / Self
Released: 2003-01-01

18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary...

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#JR

as Self
Released: 2018-09-04

At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’...

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Tribute to Zgougou the Cat

as uncredited
Released: 2002-02-02

A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.

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Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 2014-08-14

Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the...

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Calling the Shots

as Self
Released: 1988-09-08

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

as Self (voice)
Released: 2022-06-24

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed...

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Viva Varda!

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-05-17

A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by...

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A Visual History with Agnès Varda

as Herself
Released: 2017-11-09

Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017:...

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One Minute for One Image

as Narrator
Released: 1983-01-31

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is...

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More So-called Caryatids

as Narrator
Released: 2005-12-05

A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various...

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Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer

as Self
Released: 2018-08-16

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story....

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150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement

as French Woman Talking
Released: 2021-03-03

A Woman Watches People.

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Agnes V. by Jane B.

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2020-01-01

Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on...

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The 8th Floor

as Self
Released: 2014-05-10

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of...

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Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South

as Self
Released: 1994-09-26

"The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make,...

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The World in Shots

as Self
Released: 2021-08-31

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and...

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Rue Daguerre in 2005

as Self
Released: 2005-01-01

Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years...

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Not Like Before

as Self
Released: 2005-05-10

From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we...

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La Vie filmée

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-01

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and...

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Two Street Artists

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2012-01-01

This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in...

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Harumi

as Self
Released: 2019-05-12

In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi...

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La Mélangite

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1960-09-01

Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. 1960)

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Chance Is the Best Assistant

as Self
Released: 2018-03-08

An interview with Agnes Varda and JR.

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EXPRMNTL

as herself
Released: 2016-10-08

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice...

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Viva Varda!

as Self
Released: 1970-01-01

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together,...

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Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma

as Agnès Varda
Released: 2019-01-20

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From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects

as Self
Released: 2007-12-31

In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet...

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The 3 Lives of Agnès

as Self
Released: 2012-11-21

The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist.

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Leçon de Cinéma

as Self
First aired: 2004-03-20

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Un film et son époque

as Self
First aired: 2003-05-17

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Agnès Varda: From Here to There

as Self / Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2011-12-19

Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St....

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Varda by Agnès

as Self
First aired: 2019-03-18

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light...

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