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Agnès Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer
to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past
fifty years. She is widely believed to have presaged the French new wave
with her first film, La Pointe Courte, long before creating one of the movement's
benchmarks, Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7). Later, with Le bonheur and
Vagabond (Sans toi ni loi), Varda further shook up art-house audiences,
challenging bourgeois codes with her inscrutable characters and offering
effortlessly beautiful compositions and editing. Now working largely as
a documentarian, Varda remains one of the essential cinematic poets of our
time and a true visionary. |
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