Container of (work): Plages d'Agnès (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from disc label. Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier, Andrée Vilar, Stéphane Vilar, Christophe Vilar, Rosalie Varda, Mathieu Demy, Christophe Vallaux, Mireille Henrio, Didier Rouget, Anne-Laure Manceau, Gérard Ayres, Jim McBride. Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Issued in a boxed set entitled: The complete films of Agnès Varda. Wide screen and full screen. Digitally restored. Special features: Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier; Installations; Around trapeze artists; Daguerre Beach, footage of the creation; Interview from 2020 with scholar Kelley Conway on Varda's unique approach to self-portraiture; trailer.
Contents:
Les plages d'Agnès = The beaches of Agnès / Ciné-Tamaris présente ; une coproduction Ciné-Tamaris, Arte France cinéma ; un film écrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda.
Summary:
"If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes. If we opened me up, we'd find beaches." Originally intended to be Agnès Varda's farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting auto-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy. Revisiting the places that shaped her-- from the North Sea beaches of Belgium where she spent her childhood to the Mediterranean village where she shot her first film to the boardwalks of Los Angeles where she lived with her husband, Jacques Demy-- Varda reflects on a lifetime of creation and inspiration, successes and setbacks, heartbreak and joy. Replete with images of wonder and whimsy-- the ocean reflected in a kaleidoscope of mirrors, the streets of Paris transformed into a sandy beach, the filmmaker herself ensconced in the belly of a whale-- the film is a playful and poignant record of a life lived fully and passionately in the name of cinema
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