Emotion picture: Agnès Varda's self-reflexive The beaches of Agnès and the cinema of generosity
- Document source:
- Film Comment
- Publication date:
- 2009 Jul
- Document language:
- English
- Document type:
- article
- Number of pages:
- 6
- Document name subject:
- Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jacques Demy, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Luc Godard, and Michel Piccoli
- Document contains:
- production co
- Related films:
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- La Pointe-Courte — Varda, Agnès — France — 1956
- Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) — Varda, Agnès — France; Italy — 1962
- La jetée (The pier) — Marker, Chris — France — 1963
- Le bonheur (Happiness) — Varda, Agnès — France — 1965
- Lions love — Varda, Agnès — United States; France — 1969
- Daguerréotypes — Varda, Agnès — France; Germany — 1976
- Mur murs (Mural murals) — Varda, Agnès — France; United States — 1981
- Documenteur — Varda, Agnès — France; United States — 1981
- Sans soleil (Sunless) — Marker, Chris — France — 1983
- Ulysse — Varda, Agnès — France — 1983
- Kung-fu master — Varda, Agnès — France — 1987
- Jacquot de Nantes — Varda, Agnès — France — 1991
- Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The gleaners and I) — Varda, Agnès — France — 2000
- Les plages d'Agnès (The beaches of Agnès) — Varda, Agnès — France — 2008
- Film country(ies):
- France, Germany, Italy, and United States
- Film language(s):
- English and French
- Film production company:
- Argos Films, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Canal Plus, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Ciné Tamaris, France 2 Cinéma, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, La Sept Cinéma, Max L. Raab Productions, Parc Film, Rome Paris Films, Région Ile-de-France, Région Languedoc-Roussillon, Sofiarp, and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Film genre(s):
- Biographical, Biographical (Nonfiction), Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Feature, and Women
- Film subject(s):
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- Adultery -- France -- Drama
- Africa -- Description and travel
- Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Drama
- Attitude to Death -- Drama
- Boys -- Drama
- Boys -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
- Demy, Jacques -- Drama
- France -- Social conditions -- 1995-
- French -- United States -- Drama
- Gleaning -- France
- Japan -- Description and travel
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- France -- Drama
- May-December romances -- Drama
- Memory
- Memory -- Drama
- Mothers and sons -- Drama
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Drama
- Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Biography
- Mural painting and decoration, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs
- Ragpickers -- France
- Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- France
- Rue Daguerre (Paris, France)
- Single mothers -- Drama
- Street art -- California -- Los Angeles
- Time travel -- Drama
- Varda, Agnès, 1928- -- Biography
- Villages -- France -- Drama
- Women singers -- France -- Paris -- Drama
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