THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS

THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (LES PLAGES D'AGNÈS), 2008
France | DCP, Color, 110 min | French, English
Actors: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier

“If you look carefully within people, you find landscapes there. When it comes to me, if they were to open me up, they would find beaches.” This is how Agnès Varda describes herself. Varda, who in this autobiographical documentary turns to the beaches that constitute periods of her life, appears on the stage with her films, her images and interviews. In the film, which places emphasis on the little notebooks in which Varda took notes throughout her life and on the photographs she collected, the director tells us how she started out working as a stage photographer, then how she became one of the directors of the early period of the French New Wave which had a great impact on cinema, her experiences with the director Jacques Demy, feminism, her travels in Cuba, China and the U.S.A, her life as an independent producer and her family in a humorous and emotional voice.