Belgian-born French director whose La Pointe Courte in 1955 anticipated the French New Wave and whose Cleo from 5 to 7 became one of its landmarks. Across six decades of features, documentaries and essay films she remained the leading woman director of European art cinema, receiving an honorary Academy Award in 2017.
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Defining ContributionForerunner and member of the French New Wave; La Pointe Courte; Cleo from 5 to 7 2 Agnès Varda
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In 2017, she became the first female director to win an Academy Honorary Award.
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The Gleaners and I - Wikipedia
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The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a 2000 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda that explores the subject of gleaning-historically, the gathering of farm produce left after formal harvest, here including rural-urban reclamation of disposed food and objects.
Vagabond (1985 film) (Wikipedia)
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Vagabond (French: Sans toit ni loi, literally "without roof or law") is a 1985 French drama film written and directed by Agnès Varda and starring Sandrine Bonnaire.
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