Why Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 deserves to be a classic Succession Varda Agnès Varda received more votes than any other director in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest films made by women. Succession Varda Rather than being the godmother of the French New Wave, argued film critic Roger Ebert, Varda was ‘its very soul’ – with Cléo …
In the September/October 2017 issue of Film Comment, Agnès Varda said, “There is only one old friend left now, Jean-Luc Godard.” As a reader, I felt sad, but Varda was probably being very matter-of-fact about it. I tell myself, my health is fading, I’m losing my memory, I am more and more weak… but these are all normal processes of …
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