Tournées Festival: Agnès Varda: "The Beaches of Agnès"
4:00 PM, February 12, 2010
Friday Feb 12, 4:00 pm, "Film Today" Class
Agnès Varda: The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d'Agnès), 2008, 110 min., 35mm
On the eve of her 80th birthday, Agnès Varda, often referred to as "the godmother of the French New Wave," decided to make the autobiographical The Beaches of Agnes, guiding us through her extraordinary 55-year career and poignantly reminiscing about her husband, the filmmaker Jacques Demy (best known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), who died of AIDS in 1990--information that Varda makes public here for the first time. Raising two children--costume designer Rosalie Varda and actor Mathieu Demy--and making some of France's greatest movies from the 1960s, Varda and Demy traveled the world but appeared to have been most at home in the 7th art. Or, as Varda puts it: "Cinema--I feel like I've always lived in it."
The "Tournées Festival" is made possible with the support of
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC)
CalArts 2010 Festival of French Cinema is a collaboration between CalArts School of Film/Video, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC)