The warm, elfin filmmaker makes a fine companion through this vivid story of a life well lived, reminding us at the end of how we create our own safe havens within our families.
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09/24/09
The Beaches of Agnes (2009)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:57
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: An enchanting self-portrait by a veteran director, Beach of Agnes is equal parts playful and profound.
Theatrical Release:Jul 1, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Celebrated filmmaker Agnes Varda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7) turns the camera on herself for this autobiographical documentary. While roaming the beach, the beatific 80-year-old revisits her past--including... [More]
Reviews for The Beaches of Agnes
A wonderful, warm, witty and insightful cinematic memoir from the godmother of the French new wave.
10/04/09
Charming and idiosyncratic, The Beaches Of Agnès has a strong emotional pull for anyone familiar with Varda’s career as a film-maker, photographer, artist and committed feminist.
10/04/09
It's exciting to have someone with Varda's energy and creativity continuing to make provocative and inspirational art as she enters her ninth decade on the planet.
06/30/09
There's not much discipline and it's way too long, but in common with her best work, it has a dreamy sort of charm.
10/04/09
Packed as the new film is with so many interlocking love stories, of people and places, of ideas and experimentation, it's difficult not to leave the theater giddy at being swept up in her embrace.
07/03/09
A captivating cine-memoir, impressionistic and surrealistic, surveying Varda's formidable career as a still photographer, filmmaker, documentarian, and life force.
09/03/09
Top Critica film that acknowledges time and age without completely giving into their grim results.
06/30/09
By the end of Beaches of Agnes, we've learned an incredible amount about how this fascinating woman mines her own life for her art.
09/24/09
The Beaches of Agnes is a work of delightful contradictions from a filmmaker who has always played by her own rules.
12/18/09
Top CriticAt 80, French New Wave legend Agnes Varda creates a lucid and passionate cinematic memoir that is transformative in its effortless ability to connect the director's life story to her ever-present artistic impulses that are just as strong today as when she
06/19/09
When was the last time you saw a world-renowned director converse with a cartoon cat or dress as a potato?
09/17/09
In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen.
07/10/09
Varda turns the camera on herself and her own life, even though she convincingly posits that she's much more interested in other people.
07/02/09
This feels like the work of an octogenarian who wishes to be leave those close to her a well rounded self-portrait to remember her by.
10/18/08
A puckish, moving and wonderfully eccentric tour through her life.
10/04/09
Agnès Varda manages to be full of herself without seeming … full of herself. Perhaps that’s because her self is full of so much other stuff: friends, photos, films, buildings, and beaches.
06/22/09
Top CriticAlthough you will get more out of this self-portrait if you're a film-lover, it can be enjoyed simply for its touching, eloquent reflections on life in general.
10/04/09
Playful, amusing, and illuminating, Varda's latest docu is at once an engaging personal memoir of a rich life and an informal look at the French New Wave, of which she was a co-founder and the only significant female member.
07/03/09
As insistently wry as it is haunting.
06/28/09
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