“The Beaches of Agnes”

Agnes varda

Agnes varda

 

“The Beaches of Agnes” stars Agnès Varda, an early member of the French New Wave that has worked with Catherine Deneuve, Jane Birkin, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Piccoli, and Philippe Noiret as well as Harrison Ford and the Black Panthers. This film is a collections of stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, Los Angeles in the ’60s, and life in her 14e arrondissement Paris neighborhood.

Her husband/filmmaker Jacques Demy, who passed away in 1990, is an enduring presence. Varda is a wife and mother, a feminist, urban artist and nature-lover but most of all, she is a woman in love with the cinema. Scheduled to release July 1, 2009.

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