Agnès Varda

Films

Salut les Cubains

Salute to Cuba | Cinévardaphoto
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1963) 29 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Travelogue
Documentary / Social Issues
Short / Documentary
International / Americas / Caribbean / Cuban
Classic / Classic Documentary

The final film in the CINEVARDAPHOTO triptych is the oldest, SALUT LES CUBAINS. In 1963, Varda thoughtfully gave order to 1,800 photos that she had recently taken on a trip to Cuba.

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Elsa la rose

Dir. Agnès Varda
(1965) 20 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Biography
Short / Documentary
Documentary / Literature
Classic / Classic Documentary

French (though Russian-born) author Elsa Triolet's youth through the eyes of her husband, Louis Aragon, a French poet and novelist.

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Réponse de femmes

Women Reply
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1975) 8 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Short / Documentary
Documentary / Cinéma-vérité
Documentary / Social Issues
Classic / Classic Documentary

1975: the "Year of the Woman." A television station gives seven female filmmakers seven minutes to answer the question "What does it mean to be a woman?"

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Plaisir d'amour en Iran

The Pleasure of Love in Iran
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1976) 6 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Drama / Romantic Drama
Short / Narrative
International / Middle Eastern / Iranian

How can you talk about love when you're looking at a mosque or talk about architecture in bed?

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Daguerréotypes

Dir. Agnès Varda
(1976) 78 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Cinéma-vérité
Documentary / Social Issues
Classic / Classic Documentary

A classic documentary from Agnes Varda, DAGUERREOTYPES is a wonderfully intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers on a short stretch of the Rue Daguerre.

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Ulysse

Cinévardaphoto
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1982) 22 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Photography
Short / Documentary

For ULYSSE, Agnes Varda grants herself the unusual screen credit of cinécrit, but the écriture in question is actually the titular photograph she took on a beach in 1954.

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7P., cuis., s. de b.

Seven Bedrooms, Kitchen and Bath
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1984) 28 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Drama / Docudrama
Short / Narrative

An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not?

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Les dites cariatides

The So-Called Caryatids
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1984) 12 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Short / Documentary
Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Sculpture

Caryatids – female statues, human columns – sprung up all over Paris as Baudelaire was struck with aphasia.

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T'as de beaux escaliers, tu sais

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know
Dir. Agnès Varda
(1986) 3 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Picture
Short / Documentary

What better way to pay tribute to the then fifty-year-old Cinematheque Francaise in one-hundred-fifty seconds than by filming the fifty steps.

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The Gleaners and I

Dir. Agnès Varda
(2000) 79 minutes

Genres:
Documentary / Social Issues
International / European / French

Agnès Varda's universally acclaimed "wandering-road documentary" focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip.

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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.

Ydessa, les ours et etc. | Cinévardaphoto
Dir. Agnès Varda
(2004) 44 minutes

Genres:
International / European / French
Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Photography
Documentary / Biography

In YDESSA, THE BEARS AND ETC., Agnès Varda devotes her attention to curator Ydessa Hendeles' remarkable exhibit "Partners" which opened at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in November of 2002.

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