
May 30, 1928 · 98 years old
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.

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

A woman returns from holiday to find her husband has been murdered, and several groups of people are pressuring her to unravel the mystery of his true identity and activities during his final days.

François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.

Agnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oe...

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy.

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influ...

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and lov...

"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a ...

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.

This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.

A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son.

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertw...

Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.

A couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.

A man who returns to Los Angeles to wrap up his mother's estate sets out in search of the mysterious woman named in her will.

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

A recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched.

The story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.

In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

Walk around the Loire Valley castles 'shown in chronological order of construction' with commentaries, 16th-century poems, and gardeners' reflections.

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnès Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening ...

In 2005, filmmaker Agnès Varda revisited the Rue Daguerre where she used to live 30 years earlier and had interviewed the shopkeepers for her film Daguerreotypes, to see how things might ...