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Agnès Varda

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

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Agnès Varda was a French filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist who became a major figure in cinema from the 1950s through the 2010s. She is considered important for pioneering innovative approaches to storytelling and documentary work that influenced generations of filmmakers and artists.

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Born: 1928
Died: 2019-03-29
Works: 13

Top works

Cléo de 5 á 7
Les plages d'Agnès
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Visages villages
La marginalité à l'écran

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Directing · 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 style.

Known for

Ydessa, the Bears and etc. — Narrator (voice)2026
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison — Self (archive footage)2025
In Her Own Words — Self2024
Viva Varda! — Self (archive footage)2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera — Self (archive footage)2023
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 — Self (voice)

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Agnès Varda (born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.

Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema. Varda's feature film debut was La Pointe Courte (1955), followed by Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), one of her most notable narrative films, Vagabond (1985), and Kung Fu Master (1988). Varda was also known for her work as a documentarian, with such works as Black Panthers (1968), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Faces Places (2017), and her final film, Varda by Agnès (2019).