Agnès Varda — Director (44)

Movie

Along the Coast (1958)
Du côté de la côte
Agnès Varda actor: Roger Coggio / Anne Ollivier …
other title: Du côté de la côte
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.

Movie

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Cléo de 5 à 7
★ 8.4 24 ratings
other title: Cleo dalle 5 alle 7 / Cleo fra 5 til 7 …
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.

Movie

Vagabond (1985)
Sans toit ni loi
★ 8.1 7 ratings
Agnès Varda actor: Sandrine Bonnaire / Macha Méril …
other title: Senza tetto nè legge / En pige på drift …
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.