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Les Plages d'Agnès

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Les Plages d'Agnès
País:

Francia 
Director:

Agnès Varda

Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

110 min
Cast:
  • Agnès Varda, Mathieu Demy, Rosali
Production:
  • DIRECCIÓN: Agnès Varda
  • GUIÓN: Agnès Varda
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Helene Louvart
  • MONTAJE: Joanna Bruzdowicz
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Agnès Varda

Synopsis

To the question on the boundary that exists between autobiography and self-portrait, Agnès Varda answers dynamiting it, opting in Les Plages d'Agnès for an associative, Joycean flow, capable of starting off with childhood beaches as they are today, to then evoke privileged or remembered moments during the shooting, going backwards and forward, at the port of Sète, where she shot La Pointe courte, and then to an extraordinary evocation of his longtime partner Jacques Demy, covering the Cuban Revolution, her place in the French New Wave, the help she received from Jean-Luc Godard, or her period in the US, which includes Jim Morrison himself. Her joyous freedom for writing, her terror towards solemnity brought together with slight, self-critical humor, and the way in which the course of the film starts finding its way (while it causes the powerful realization that the director was present in every significant cultural and political event, at the right time and with her camera and love in her hand), turn Les Plages d'Agnès into a unique and pleasant object. To think that it's her cinematic testament is to believe that she has the age that appears in her ID, but Varda is a curious clinic case: she is the first adolescent who has lived through everything.