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THE BEACHES OF AGNES
“The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda, perhaps the only filmmaker who has both won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and strolled around an art exhibition while costumed as a potato (not at the same time.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Director/Writer: Agnes Varda
Art Director: Franckie Diago
Assistant Director: Benjamin Blanc, Julia Fabry
Cast: With Agnes Varda, Blaise Fournier, Andree Vilar, Stephane Vilar, Rosalie Varda
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Produced and directed by French Left Bank giant Agnès Varda as a summation of her long and enduring career, Agnès' Beaches constitutes a free-floating essay film. It is comprised of various elements that collectively pay homage to Varda's past -- including clips from the director's features, dramatically reconstructed moments from Varda's life, and elaborate, almost baroque monuments created onscreen to symbolize specific ideas and concepts -- such as an opening scene with a number of individuals setting up mirrors of various shapes and sizes on a great beach, and an enclosure lined, from wall to wall and floor to ceiling, with film strips from Varda's only cinematic flop, the 1969 feature Les Creatures. Varda uses beaches throughout the narrative as a recurring structural motif to convey her progress from one stage of life to another, while the freedom of form on display here recalls a similar approach on display in earlier Varda works such as the 1991 Jacquot de Nantes
Screening:
Saturday • Academy Art Museum • 8:00pm • 110min • Q&A with Linda Delibero (CFF Film Advisory Board)
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Linda DeLibero (CFF Film Advisory Board)is Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies program at Johns Hopkins University where she has been teaching film since 1989. Her research and teaching areas include film history and theory; ideology and film/television/popular culture; mass culture studies; and issues in film education and historiography. She has published and lectured widely on contemporary film; the history of television theory and criticism; women, class and popular culture; and media education. Current research interests include a history of the divide between popular and academic film discourse, and the aesthetics of violence in Hollywood film. She is currently writing a book on Marlon Brando for Yale's Icons of America series.
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SINGLE SCREENING
$8 – available before Sat., 9/19 • $10 at the door
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