Varda by Agnès

Varda by Agnès

Directed by Agnès Varda • 2019 • France
Starring Agnès Varda

The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, Varda acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes—the wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography VARDA BY AGNÈS is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.

Varda by Agnès
  • Varda by Agnès

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 2019 • France
    Starring Agnès Varda

    The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, Varda acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative t...

Extras

  • Mathieu Demy and Rosalie Varda

    Both of director Agnès Varda’s children were involved in her work since their early childhood, up to and including VARDA BY AGNÈS. In these interviews, shot for the Criterion Collection in 2020, Rosalie Varda and Mathieu Demy reflect on a lifetime of creative collaboration with their mother, as w...

  • VARDA BY AGNÈS Telluride Film Festival Panel

    Rosalie Varda and Mathieu Demy are joined by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and Telluride Film Festival cofounder Tom Luddy in this discussion of director Agnès Varda’s work, recorded at the North American premiere of VARDA BY AGNÈS at the Telluride Film Festival in 2019, and moderated by film scholar...

  • Agnès Varda's Credit Sequences

    This 2019 video essay, “cinewritten” by Alex Vuillaume-Tylski, explores the unique ways in which Agnès Varda opens and closes her films, starting with 1955’s LA POINTE COURTE and continuing through her final work, VARDA BY AGNÈS.

  • Sensing Bodies

    This brief video essay, produced by the French online publication Trois Couleurs in 2019, highlights the way VARDA BY AGNÈS filmmaker Agnès Varda sought to capture details of the human body throughout her filmmaking.

  • A Chat with Nini

    This brief but riveting conversation between VARDA BY AGNÈS director Agnès Varda and her cat Nini was shot in 2019.

  • Hands and Objects: On Agnès Varda's Shorts

    Directed by Anne Huet in 2007, this program features a conversation among Huet, VARDA BY AGNÈS director Agnès Varda, and critic Alain Berlaga about Varda’s work as a maker of short films.

  • Unfinished Varda: LA MÉLANGITE

    Presented here is footage from VARDA BY AGNÈS director Agnès Varda’s unfinished project LA MÉLANGITE.

  • Unfinished Varda: CHRISTMAS CAROLE

    Presented here is footage from VARDA BY AGNÈS director Agnès Varda’s unfinished project CHRISTMAS CAROLE.

  • Varda Commercials: Collants Minuit

    Presented here is a commercial shot by VARDA BY AGNÈS filmmaker Agnès Varda.

  • Varda Commercials: Tupperware

    Presented here is a commercial shot by VARDA BY AGNÈS filmmaker Agnès Varda.

  • THE COMPLETE FILMS OF AGNÈS VARDA Janus Retrospective Trailer