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.

The director of ‘Cléo de 5 à 7’ and other groundbreaking films put female experience at the center of her movies.

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.

I don’t study animals to understand humans,” says the “Conclave” star and ethologist. (But she gets us just the same.) ...

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 ...

This week, we recommend a few Cinejoy flicks, as well as cover Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s exciting Viva Varda series; a one-night-only screening of the acerbic comedy “Lousy Carter ...

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 ...

On the syllabus was Agnès Varda‘s “Cléo from 5 to 7,” a film that brought tears to Rickey’s eyes as soon as she saw the “Script and Direction by Agnès Varda” credit appear on screen.