About Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (1928, Belgium – 2019, France) was a French film director and photographer. Her debut film, La pointe courte (1954), was a precursor to the French New Wave. Following her groundbreaking second feature, Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), she went on to make short films, feature films and documentaries, among them Happiness (1964, Silver Bear in Berlin), Vagabond (1985, Golden Lion in Venice), The Gleaners and I (2000, European Film Award) and The Beaches of Agnès (2008, César).
At 89, Varda became the oldest person ever nominated for an Oscar with Faces Places (2017). Her most celebrated film of the 1990s was Jacquot of Nantes (1991), based on the childhood of director Jacques Demy, whom Varda had married in 1962.
Varda also produced photography and art installations. Her exhibition Patatutopia was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2003. She subsequently had various solo exhibitions at, among others, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She was awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and an Honorary Oscar in 2017 in recognition of her lifetime achievements.
