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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 film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist with French and Greek origins. 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 3,180,964 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Agnès Varda is the 63rd most popular film director (down from 53rd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 52nd 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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  • 49

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  • 7.10

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  • 3.15

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Agnès Varda ranks 63 out of 1,581Before her are Werner Herzog, Isao Takahata, Robert Zemeckis, Oliver Stone, Stephen Hillenburg, and Yasujirō Ozu. After her are Claude Chabrol, Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and Franco Zeffirelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Agnès Varda ranks 25Before her are Didi, Shirley Temple, Roger Vadim, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Alvin Toffler, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. After her are Alexander Grothendieck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kim Yong-nam, Elie Wiesel, George Peppard, and James Coburn. Among people deceased in 2019, Agnès Varda ranks 12Before her are Rutger Hauer, Bruno Ganz, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Robert Forster, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Mohamed Morsi. After her are Alexei Leonov, Anna Karina, Franco Zeffirelli, Karel Gott, Jeffrey Epstein, and I. M. Pei.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Agnès Varda ranks 60 out of 1,019Before her are Isabella of Austria (1501), Léon Degrelle (1906), Django Reinhardt (1910), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Pepin of Landen (585), and Julio Cortázar (1914). After her are Jacob Jordaens (1593), John of Gaunt (1340), James Ensor (1860), Philippe of Belgium (1960), Johannes Ockeghem (1410), and Father Damien (1840).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

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

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