The Beaches of Agnès

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Agnès Varda
  • France 2008
  • 110 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

On the eve of her 80th birthday, Varda makes a cinematic memoir of her personal and artistic life. In a witty and original way, she weaves archive footage, reconstructions and film excerpts to chart her life, including childhood, the French New Wave period, and her marriage to Jacques Demy.

Inventive, emotional and reflective, this autobiographical essay celebrates Varda’s artistic creativity and curiosity about life. 'I'm playing the role of a little old lady," Agnès Varda says in the opening sequence of the film, "pleasantly plump and talkative, telling her life story. And yet, it's others I'm interested in; others I like to film."

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  • Director Agnès Varda
  • Production Agnès Varda
  • Script Agnès Varda
  • Cinematography Hélène Louvart
  • Editing Baptiste Filloux, Jean-Baptiste Morin
  • Music Joanna Bruzdowicz, Stéphane Vilar
  • Participants Jacques Demy, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Harrison Ford, Jim Morrison, Gérard Depardieu, Agnès Varda
  • Source MK2, Paris