Le cinéma d'Agnès Varda

May 2010 - May 2011

From anticipating the French New Wave to inventively embracing and re-defining digital video, Belgian-born auteur Agnès Varda has always bounded forward with a restless, inspiring joy for filmmaking . A New Wave contemporary associated with Left Bank filmmakers like Alain Resnais and Chris Marker who made her name with the soulsearching real time drama Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Varda has traced a path through cinema as invigorating, whimsical, painterly, and searching as it has been personal. No film form or material is a stranger to this most inventive of cinematic voices, from short to feature, documentary to drama (and some in-between), introspection and exploration, ode to love, ode to cinema, ode to women, to the lost, to the beautiful, to the happy, the sad, and the mourned. As a filmmaker, Varda is always ready to experiment and to explore that within and that without, and by making her films widely available online The Auteurs is proud to let audiences explore these worlds with her.