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Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaCast:
Mathieu Demy, Agnès Varda, Viva (a.f.), Patricia Louisianna Knop, France Dougnac (a.f.), Stéphane Vilar, Didier Rouget, Gerome Ragni (a.f.), James Rado (a.f.) (more)VOD (1)
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“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, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy. Revisiting the places that shaped her—from the North Sea beaches of Belgium where she spent her childhood to the Mediterranean village where she shot her first film to the boardwalks of Los Angeles where she lived with her husband, Jacques Demy—Varda reflects on a lifetime of creation and inspiration, successes and setbacks, heartbreak and joy. Replete with images of wonder and whimsy—the ocean reflected in a kaleidoscope of mirrors, the streets of Paris transformed into a sandy beach, the filmmaker herself ensconced in the belly of a whale—The Beaches of Agnès is a playful and poignant record of a life lived fully and passionately in the name of cinema. (Criterion)
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Mathieu Demy
France
Best movies:
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
Agnès Varda
Belgium
Best movies:
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Viva (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Paris, Texas (1984)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
France Dougnac (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
Le Concierge (1973)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Hothead (1979)
Didier Rouget
Best movies:
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
Gerome Ragni (a.f.)
USA
James Rado (a.f.)
USA
Gerald Ayres
USA
Best movies:
The Last Detail (1973)
Documenteur (1981)