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the perspective for the first time, showing her from the outside, as it were, through interviews and previously unpublished archival footage.
Viva Varda!
Pierre-Henri Gibert
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