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Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda (born 30 May 1928) is a Belgian film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.

Life

Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Greek father and French mother. Her father's family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor.

Despite similarities to the French New Wave, films by Varda belonged more precisely to the Rive Gauche sister-movement, along with Chris Marker, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Cayrol and Henri Colpi. The group was strongly tied to the nouveau roman movement in literature and politically was positioned in the Left. Like the French New Wave, its members would often collaborate with each other.

Award

For the 1985 documentary-style feature film Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival.

Selected Filmography

Title	English Title	Country	Year	Credit
La Pointe Courte	—	France	1956	Director, Writer
Cléo de 5 à 7	Cléo from 5 to 7	France/Italy	1962	Director, Writer
Le Bonheur	Happiness	France	1965	Director, Writer
Lions Love	Lions Love	USA/France	1969	Director, Writer, Producer
L'Une chante, l'autre pas	One Sings, the Other Doesn't	Venezuela/France/Belgium	1977	Director, Writer
Sans toit ni loi	Vagabond	France/UK	1985	Director, Writer, Editor
Jane B. par Agnès V.	Jane B. by Agnes V.	France	1986-7	Director, Writer, Editor
Kung-Fu Master	Le Petit amour	France	1987	Director, Writer
Jacquot de Nantes	—	France	1990	Director, Writer
Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma	A Hundred and One Nights	UK/France	1994	Director, Writer
Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse	The Gleaners and I	France	2000	Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après	The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later	France	2002	Director, Editor
Lion volatil, Le	—	France	2003	Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Plages d'Agnès, Les (currently in production)	—	France	2008	Director, Writer, Producer