On the seventh day of the festival tomorrow under continuous cloudy winter sky can happen to a nothing Better, than to start with “Varda par Agnès” in the day. Agnès Varda, the small, roundish, talkative woman, as the Director is characterized in her documentary film, distributed with 90 years of so much joy that the own mood brightens immediately. Although it is looks to “The beaches of Agnès” (2008) and “eyes. Faces of a journey“ (2017, together with the artist JR) her first Film in their own right. But you see you again the excerpts from “Cléo de 5 à 7” or “one sings, the other doesn’t”, her Work with Jane Birkin or Film over the collector, with the XXL-potato heart from the field, which you can later also at the centre of an Installation for the Venice art Biennale. She herself walks around in a potato costume in the Giardini.

Also, Sandrine Bonnaire, the tramp from the “bird is free”, again, she’s sitting with Varda at one of the filming locations of the time on the camera Dolly, and thinks back, laughing at the feisty Director. Meanwhile, Varda airs the secret of the slow camera movements in “Bird”. Actually, Varda par Agnès is a kind of lesson. Varda is sitting on podiums and stages, and are happy for information about the life and work, also companions, such as your cinematographer Nurith Aviv. The film is three things, says Varda, “Inspiration, invention, Parts”. No one makes movies alone, therefore, the credits roll, with the many names of all the parties Involved right from the start.

The Rue Daguerre is to the beach

A tribute to life, to the Knowledge of the dark world abgetrotzte luck. A Declaration of love to bright colors, Vardas Parisian street, the Rue Daguerre with the small shops, her husband, in 1990, died, filmmaker Jacques Demy, to the women, the people. In the “beaches”Film, she regrets that she grew up in Belgium on the coast, the time of the war in the Mediterranean spent with Demy in L. A. on the Pacific ocean lived, but Paris is not on the sea. So they transformed the Rue Daguerre in a beach. Your employees put your feet in the Sand, while they themselves ask on the cardboard phone to an interest-free loan. You want to hire on the spot in Vardas Team.

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Agnès Varda to 90. Birthday of the Grande Dame of the author film

Andreas Busche

14.2., 9.30 a.m. to 18 p.m. (FSP), 22.30 (International), 15.2., 21 at (City Kino Wedding)