The film Director Agnès Varda is dead. The family of the Frenchwoman said on Friday. In February, the 90-Year-old had been awarded at the Berlinale for her life’s work.
The filmmaker had worked in her over 60-year-long career with more than 30 works, the reputation of one of the key figures of international auteur cinema. You could look at awards such as the Golden lion, an honorary César, or the Golden palm. The Locarno film festival awarded her with the 2014 leopard of honor.
Varda, on 30. May 1928 born in Brussels, moved in her Oeuvre are mostly the “simple” people in the focus. The milestones of her career, the hobo are about indoor portrait “free as a Bird” (1985) or her international breakthrough, “Cleo – Wednesday between 5 and 7” (1962), a work on the time. Thus, Varda developed the unofficial honorary title of “grandmother of the Nouvelle Vague”.
The enterprising filmmaker with the distinctive Bangs remained active until the end and introduced around 2017 at the Cannes film festival together with the street artist JR, the documentary work “moments: faces of a journey”. At the Berlinale was also shown their cinematic autobiography, “in Varda par Agnès”. (SDA)
Created: 29.03.2019, 12:04 PM
