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    Agnès Varda 1984 France Documentary Short color 13min French 16mm
    Always, there are graceful sculptures of women on the grand pillars of the ancient architectures in Paris. The director shows in the film her interest in the sculptures which have been supporting the grand architectures since the time of Baudelaire.
    The film was invited to 1984 Venice Film Festival.

    Director

    Agnès Varda

    French filmmaker born in 1928. Greek father. French mother. Short studies in Paris. Photographer in the fifties. In 1954, she creates a film company CINE-TAMARIS for debut feature La Pointe Courte, which gave her the title of "Grand Mother of the French New Wave". Among 33 short and long, the best known films of Agnès are Cléo from 5 to 7(1961), Vagabond(1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1990), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches Of Agnes (2008) and Visages Villages (2017).

    Agnès Varda

    2017 Faces Places

    2008 The Beaches of Agnès

    2000 The Gleaners and I

    1994 A Hundred and One Nights

    1993 The Young Girls Turn 25

    1987 Kung-Fu Master!

    1985 Vagabond

    1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn't

    1969 Lions Love

    1967 Far From Vietnam

    1965 Happiness

    1962 Cléo from 5 to 7

    1955 La Pointe Courte

    Director: Agnès Varda

    Writers: Charles Baudelaire (poems), Agnès Varda

    Star: Agnès Varda

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