FILM DIRECTOR

Agnès Varda

1928 - 2019

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Agnès Varda (French: [aɲɛs vaʁda] ; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnès Varda has received more than 3,301,056 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Agnès Varda is the 25th most popular film director (up from 63rd in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Film Director.

Agnès Varda is most famous for her work as a French filmmaker. Her most notable films include Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, and The Gleaners and I.

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  • 54

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  • 6.33

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  • 3.34

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Agnès Varda ranks 25 out of 2,041. Before her are François Truffaut, Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After her are Georges Méliès, Michelangelo Antonioni, George Lucas, Miloš Forman, Konstantin Stanislavski, and Fritz Lang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Agnès Varda ranks 9. Before her are Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Noam Chomsky. After her are Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, James Watson, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Roger Vadim, and Osamu Tezuka. Among people deceased in 2019, Agnès Varda ranks 5. Before her are Jacques Chirac, Toni Morrison, Karl Lagerfeld, and Niki Lauda. After her are Robert Mugabe, Jeffrey Epstein, Rutger Hauer, Robert Forster, Bruno Ganz, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Mohamed Morsi.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Agnès Varda ranks 22 out of 1,190. Before her are Philip I of Castile (1478), Albert II of Belgium (1934), Frans Hals (1582), Orlande de Lassus (1534), Georges Simenon (1903), and Mary of Burgundy (1457). After her are Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Rogier van der Weyden (1390), Albert I of Belgium (1875), Samo (600), Baudouin of Belgium (1930), and Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Agnès Varda ranks 1. After her are Chantal Akerman (1950), Jacques Feyder (1885), André Delvaux (1926), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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Filmography

Cléo from 5 to 7
Director
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Apr 11o 19627.699 / 10
Faces Places
Director
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Jun 28o 20177.691 / 10
Vagabond
Director
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
Dec 4o 19857.3 / 10