Should you watch The Beaches of Agnès?
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The Beaches of Agnès
Documentary · 2008
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
The Beaches of Agnès is good for you if…
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
The Beaches of Agnès is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
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