Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (* May 30, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium) is a key figure of modern film and one of the leading filmmakers. Some critics they will referred to as " grandmother of the Nouvelle Vague ".
Biography
Agnès Varda was born in 1928 as the daughter of a Greek father and a French in Brussels, but grew up in Provence. At 26, she made her first feature film, La Pointe Courte, whose shape was inspired by a novel by William Faulkner. In Varda's relationship with the actor and director Antoine Bourseiller the daughter Rosalie Varda was born in 1958, who later worked as a costume designer. In 1961 the film Wednesday 5-7, in 1963 won a French Critics Prize. In 1962 she married the director Jacques Demy, with whom she lived until his death in October 1990. In October 1972 her son Mathieu Demy came into the world, who himself later became an actor. In 1965 the work of happiness from the point of view of the man, a film with a strong feminist perspective. At the Berlinale 1965 Varda was awarded the Special Jury Prize. In 1967 she was involved in addition to Claude Lelouch, Jean -Luc Godard and Chris Marker at the remote documentation of Vietnam. This was one of the first films that have critically engaged in the Vietnam War. In 1969, Lions Love, in which, among other things, Andy Warhol and Jim Morrison are seen.
In addition to experimental films they put their attention in the 1970s on documentaries such as Black Panthers (1968 arose during a trip in America), Daguerrotypen (1975) Réponses des femmes (1975) and Ulysse (1981). For the last two films, they each received a César for Best Short Documentary. 1985 won her film Vogelfrei the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In 1987, she turned an unusual film portrait of Jane Birkin Jane B. par Agnes V. 1991, she filmed an homage to Jacques Demy whose screenplay Jacquot de Nantes. The collector and the collector was awarded in 2001 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for Best Documentary.