Agnès Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium and was raised in France. She attended the École du Louvre, studying art history and gained a strong interest in experimental and radical photography.

As the decades passed and Rickey saw more of Varda’s work, Varda expanded and deepened Rickey’s ideas not just about female filmmakers but about what it meant to be a filmmaker in general.

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The filmmaker Agnès Varda stood just 4 feet 9 inches tall, yet her cultural footprint is anything but petite. Varda made her directorial debut in 1955’s “La Pointe Courte,” now considered ...

Belgian film-maker Agnes Varda is to become the first female director to be awarded an honorary Oscar. Varda, 89, was one of the key figures in the French New Wave in the 1960s, making films like ...

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And watch for one more roundup before the end of 2024. A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey (W.W. Norton & Company) Agnès Varda has been gone for more than five ...

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Rossellini’s newest film, “Conclave,” stars Ralph Fiennes as a Catholic cardinal overseeing the selection of a new pope; Rossellini plays Sister Agnes, a largely silent but acute observer of ...