📗 Libro en inglés AGNES VARDA: DIRECTORS INSPIRATION

A visual tribute to Agnès Varda s three lives as a photographer filmmaker and artist with previously unseen archival materials texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin Martin Scorsese JR and more French filmmaker Agnès Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades Although closely associated with the French New Wave Varda established her groundbreaking visual style in her 1955 debut film La Pointe Courte well before other milestones such as François Truffaut s The 400 Blows and Jean Luc Godard s Breathless Varda impacted cinema from her first feature film through her final works with an expansive oeuvre that includes Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Vagabond 1985 and the Academy Award nominated Faces Places 2017 Agnès Varda Director s Inspiration presents the first English language visual showcase for Varda s inspirations art and personal life incorporating original materials from her personal archive on rue Daguerre The book covers Varda s three lives as photographer filmmaker and visual artist and features a previously unpublished interview Varda gave to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017 Essays by author Sasha Archibald and film critic