Beloved New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda is a peach narrating and staring in her own remembrance of things past, staging recreations and using hundreds of clips and photographs to tell her autobiography as a pictorial stream-of-consciousness. Funny, insightful, and moving, Varda, 80, doesn’t lament old age or approaching mortality, though the ghost of her husband, filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died young of AIDS in 1990, is ever present throughout the narrative, and there is no self-congratulation remembering masterpieces like “Cleo from 5 to 7” or “Vagabond”, this is an artistic remembrance of a life that has accomplished much, and still has more to give.
