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The Beaches of Agnes
(Les plages d'Agnès)

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Agnès Varda.
France, 2008, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Cine Tamaris

“If you opened people up, you would find landscapes,” Varda says in the opening voiceover of her new film. “If you opened me up, you would find beaches.” Varda’s latest work is an autobiographical essay that takes a nostalgic yet penetrating look back at her life and films. Using photographs, recreations and scenes from her films, Varda illustrates the various stages of her life, from her marriage to Jacques Demy and his death in 1990 to her childhood memories of Sète, the fishing village that would become the subject of her first film. Woven through these reminiscences are lonely, dreamlike sequences shot on the beaches that have influenced and inspired her.

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