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Agnes Varda - Interviews (Paperback)
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Agnes Varda - Interviews (Paperback)
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
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Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews
that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably
ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New
Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been completely
accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first
film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the
characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave,
Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. In a low-budget film,
using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the
prevailing studio system, Varda completely abandoned the
""tradition of quality"" that Truffaut was at that very time
condemning in the pages of Cahiers du cinema. Her work, however,
was not ""discovered"" until after Truffaut and Godard had broken
onto the scene in 1959. Varda's next film, Cleo from 5 to 7,
attracted considerably more attention and was selected as France's
official entry for the Festival in Cannes. Ultimately, however,
this film and her work for the next fifty years continued to be
overshadowed by her more famous male friends, many of whom she
mentored and advised. Her films have finally earned recognition as
deeply probing and fundamental to the growing awareness in France
of women's issues and the role of women in the cinema. ""I'm not
philosophical,"" she says, ""not metaphysical. Feelings are the
ground on which people can be led to think about things. I try to
show everything that happens in such a way and ask questions so as
to leave the viewers free to make their own judgments."" The
panoply of interviews here emphasize her core belief that ""we
never stop learning"" and reveal the wealth of ways to answer her
questions.
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