The Beaches of Agnès

Director: Agnès Varda

2008 / 112min / DCP

Telling the story of her life and her life in movies on the eve of her 80th year, Varda set out to follow the shoreline—that is, to follow the beaches that run through her cinema, from the Sète of her adolescence, the scene of her first feature La Pointe Courte (1955), to the California coast of her American sojourn in the ‘60s, to the French Atlantic beaches so cherished by her late husband, Jacques Demy. In speaking of beaches, Varda finds her way to speaking of the history she has lived through, the causes she has fought for, the friends she’s loved and lost, and facing the impermanence of all as she awaits the coming of high tide. “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” —Agnès Varda

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