Film List: Agnes Varda

Is there an icon of cinema that was as popular as the Belgian-French director? Check out the interviews, Agnes Varda with her crazy charm! She only directed eight "feature films" - depending on what you mean by "narration". The last one was called "Kung Fu Master" (1987), in which her own son experiences a love story with Jane Birkin. Fortunately, Varda wasn't a filmmaker for our parents. She was very provocative! What was it like in "Le Bonheur" (1965)? Romantic happiness is promiscuous? Or "Vagabond" (1985)? A film about a young nihilist who rebels against everything and everyone. Until her time is up. Whoever readsardas biography will notice that she comes from the working class. She did study, but didn't like it. Then she began as a photographer at weddings. Her first movie "La Pointe Courte" allegedly cost only 14,000 Francs at the end of the 50s. State cinema looks different! It's the work of a filmmaker who works against conventions - simply because she doesn't even know conventions. And Varda lived "normally" quite soon. She met Jacques Demy and became a mother. Varda and Demy are certainly the greatest romantics of French cinema! Or are they not? Demys "Lola" (1960), "Bay of Angels" (1962) and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964) - all wonderful! Varda filmed differently. In "Cleo von 5 bis 7" (1962), a pop star waits for a decisive medical diagnosis. A superficial blond person. Does she become a deeper person while waiting? Probably not. And who saw "Les Creatures" (1966)? Catherine Deneuve plays a pregnant woman who can withstand the pressure of her husband, the pressure of life. Varda was of course also a leftist. A whole series of political short films from the late 60s and the feminist "One Sings, the Other Doesn't" (1977) bear witness to this. Finally, Vagabond is considered Vardas' masterpiece. That was in 1985. A merciless film about how to fall without support and security. Extinct. Vardas late work covers the last 30 years. Above all she staged personal essay films - about herself and Jacques Demy. I think she was a free woman. So free that we don't even know much about her. None of her films are commercial! You can feel that they were all made out of love for cinema! And although Varda herself appeared so disarmingly cheerful, she made deadly films like Vagabond and Le Bonheur. To find out who she actually was, we should march straight into the cellar of our Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo. There are two big Varda boxes (UK Import) and a nice DVD version of Le Bonheur (my brother had brought me from Paris once). After a Varda show we definitely know more!