Synopsis
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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Cast
- Agnès VardaSelf
- André LubranoSelf
- Blaise FournierSelf
- Vincent FournierSelf
- Rosalie VardaSelf
- Mathieu DemySelf
- Jane BirkinSelf
- Gérard DepardieuSelf (archive footage)
- Harrison FordSelf
- Robert De NiroSelf
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
In The Beaches of Agnès, you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world. - 100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agnès Varda. - 90
The New York Times
The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda, perhaps the only filmmaker who has both won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and strolled around an art exhibition while costumed as a potato (not at the same time). - 83
The A.V. Club
If The Beaches Of Agnès has no clear structure, that's only because neither does Varda’s life--except in retrospect. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
One job of memoir is to show the world through another's eyes and inspire you to live more alertly, and that is the glory of The Beaches of Agnès. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
A genuinely playful wander down memory-lane by one of France's most revered film-makers, it's sufficiently erudite and extract-packed to satisfy cinephiles but also accessible to those for whom her name rings only vague bells. - 80
Village Voice
In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy--creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A lovely bit of memory and mischief.
