- La Poine Courte (1955)
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
- Le Bonheur (1965)
- Vagabond (1985)
- The Gleaners and I (2000)
Notable Films
Agnes Varda was a Belgian-born director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Varda is noted for
being the trailblazer for the French New Wave genre -- one of the most defining genres in cinema history.
Varda began her career in photography, where she focused on the interrelationship between photographic and cinematic forms. Her interest then shifted to film, although she had only seen around 20 films by the age of 25. Her first screenplay, which would become her debut film, La Pointe Courte, was written "just as one would write a book." It features a coiple with clashing personalities as they spend a week in a seaside town in France
This film would serve, according to many film scholars, as the forerunner to thr French New Wave genre. However, Varda is considered part of the Left Bank, which focused on experimental techniques, and the treatment of cinema as art. This genre is ironically similar to French New Wave, as it focused on unconventional techniques and political influences (particularlty left-wing)
Her next film, Cleo from 5 to 7, follows a pop singer as she awaits a cancer diagnosis. The film is notable for its mixture of documentary and fiction, as well as its confrontation of stereotypical female objectification, by giving Cleo her own agency and vision.
Varda's next films over her lifetime would primarily consist of documentaries, such as Vagabond (a pseudo-documentary drama) and The Gleaners and I. The latter was noted for its fragmented use of camera angles, and the use of digital cameras as it examined crop gleaners in rural France. It has been regarded as the eight best documenatry of all time, according to Sight and Sound.
Agnes's tremendous career as a trendsetter is one to never ben forgotten. She has served as an inspiration to contemporary filmmakers for her daringness to cross boundaries, and seek the real truth beyond the art of cinema.
Varda began her career in photography, where she focused on the interrelationship between photographic and cinematic forms. Her interest then shifted to film, although she had only seen around 20 films by the age of 25. Her first screenplay, which would become her debut film, La Pointe Courte, was written "just as one would write a book." It features a coiple with clashing personalities as they spend a week in a seaside town in France
This film would serve, according to many film scholars, as the forerunner to thr French New Wave genre. However, Varda is considered part of the Left Bank, which focused on experimental techniques, and the treatment of cinema as art. This genre is ironically similar to French New Wave, as it focused on unconventional techniques and political influences (particularlty left-wing)
Her next film, Cleo from 5 to 7, follows a pop singer as she awaits a cancer diagnosis. The film is notable for its mixture of documentary and fiction, as well as its confrontation of stereotypical female objectification, by giving Cleo her own agency and vision.
Varda's next films over her lifetime would primarily consist of documentaries, such as Vagabond (a pseudo-documentary drama) and The Gleaners and I. The latter was noted for its fragmented use of camera angles, and the use of digital cameras as it examined crop gleaners in rural France. It has been regarded as the eight best documenatry of all time, according to Sight and Sound.
Agnes's tremendous career as a trendsetter is one to never ben forgotten. She has served as an inspiration to contemporary filmmakers for her daringness to cross boundaries, and seek the real truth beyond the art of cinema.
