The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda)
A chronological romp through Varda’s life and work. Exciting and wonderful and gorgeous and traumatic and mischievous. More inter-intra-self-referential than even 101 Nights of Simon Cinéma, which of course this references more than once. The perfect summary and closer to Agnes Varda Month, and possibly to the great woman’s filmmaking career (we’ll see). I don’t feel like writing more – will catch up next time I watch it.
Tags: Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, documentary, Jacques Demy, mirrors