A leading director of the post-war period and initiator of the Nouvelle Vague, celebrated as a rock star in Hollywood during her lifetime, Agnès Varda is a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of filmmakers.

With films such as CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, HAPPINESS, VAGABOND and THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER, she produced an unconventional, cosmopolitan and often whimsical body of work, dedicated with sensitivity to the most vulnerable. She presented herself as an independent woman with her finger on the pulse of the times, who also did not want to reduce cinema to purely fiction or exclusively feature films. She often portrayed herself in her films, but this documentary reverses the perspective for the first time, showing her from the outside, as it were, through interviews and previously unpublished archival footage.

Cast

Rosalie Varda-Demy
Mathieu Demy
Viva Varda! - Poster 1

Viva Varda!

Pierre-Henri Gibert

  • Documentary
Production Country / Year
France 2023
Language
fr., en. OF mit de. UT
Format
DCP, Both, 67min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1

Director & Crew

Pierre-Henri Gibert 1

Pierre-Henri Gibert

N/A

Filmography

2014 GUILLAUME D, Dokumentarfilm

2015 LOUIS MALLE, LE REBELLE, Dokumentarfilm

2017 LE SCANDALE CLOUZOT, Dokumentarfilm

2017 BUÑUEL, LA TRANSGRESSION DES RÊVES, Dokumentarfilm

2018 DANIELLE DARRIEUX, IL EST POLI D'ETRE GAI! , Dokumentarfilm

2019 VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF, TAMBOUR BATTANT, Dokumentarfilm

2019 1940, MAIN BASSE SUR LE CINEMA FRANÇAIS, Dokumentarfilm

2019 ROUGE ! L’ART AU PAYS DES SOVIETS, Dokumentarfilm

2021 ALAIN RESNAIS, L'AUDACIEUX, Dokumentarfilm

2021 JACQUES AUDIARD, LE CINEMA A CŒUR, Dokumentarfilm

2023 VIVA VARDA, Dokumentarfilm  HOF 2023

“At the end of her life, Agnès Varda revealed a lot about herself, extending fiction to her own narrative, as so often happens with creative people. She presented herself in a consensual, slightly crazy, but somewhat slick image, and she did not always view her own work with a critical eye. Through conversations with those around her and intensive study of her work – short films, documentaries and photographs – I realized that the reality was even more extraordinary. The more I discovered the contradictory, complex, and multi-layered Agnès, the more she excited me. So I had to find a narrative form that accommodated that richness and complexity.”

Pierre-Henri Gibert

Writer
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Director of Photography
Nicolas Duchêne
Denis Gaubert
Editor
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Laure-Alice Hervé
Sound
Nicolas Bourdon
Baptiste Guichot
Damien Perrollaz
Music Composer
Arnaud Guillemant