The Beaches of Agnès (French: Les plages d'Agnès) is a 2008 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. The film is an autobiographical essay where Varda revisits places from her …

Feb 14, 2021 · It is the beach and the ocean – the site of nomadism, of eternal return, of constant movement – that allows Varda to carve her birth name (Arlette) in the sand, only to have it …

Jan 21, 2024 · By making imaginary beaches (in the film, she builds a beach in the middle of a Parisian street), Varda highlights the importance of carrying distinctive places with you …

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting auto-portrait, …

Feb 19, 2025 · Varda released “The Beaches of Agnès” after her 80th birthday, only 11 years before her death in 2019. The film is an autobiographical collage of sorts, looking back on her …

Varda was also known for her work as a documentarian with such works as Black Panthers (1968), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Faces Places (2017), and …

This 2009 featurette, directed by Agnès Varda, gives an inside look into how her team set up THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS’s beach trapeze sequences.

The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda’s autobiographical film released in 2008, begins with the artist walking bac-kwards on a beach in Belgium that was a central backdrop of her childhood. …

Jul 13, 2009 · After seeing The Beaches of Agnès there’s no question where the character of Mona in the director’s Vagabond comes from: A rebel and free spirit, from past to present, …