Agnes Varda Between Film, Photography, and Art by DeRoo Rebecca J.;

Author:DeRoo, Rebecca J.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

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Varda Now

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND RETROSPECTIVE

Varda’s refusal to be easily positioned, either politically or cinematically, has continued throughout her complex career. In its most recent stage, she raises new questions of legacy and history. With the release of her autobiographical film, Les Plages d’Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès) (2008), re-release of work on the DVD Tout(e) Varda (2012), and acceptance of the 2015 Palme d’honneur, a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival, she continues to renegotiate stories of her life and career. Where others might sum things up, she has rejected reductive social and artistic categorizations. She challenges familiar understandings of her life and work by bringing new material to light and suggesting new avenues for interpretation. While this might be seen as disclosure or personal revelation, Varda insists on leaving interpretation ambiguous and in play. As I have argued in this work, Varda’s films invoke different media, and the conventions associated with them, across her career. They raise issues beyond the surface narrative—questions of identity and politics—and they explore documentary and self-reflexive cinematic practice. In The Beaches of Agnès, Varda again invokes various media within her film to explore questions of her identity, focusing on themes of age, gender, suppressed memory, and nostalgia. In dialogues at the Cannes festival and in her speech at the awards ceremony, she engages the celebration of her life’s work but also challenges it by raising broader questions about her place as a female filmmaker.

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