Varda's brilliant cinematic reflection of her life, loves and prolific career is both poignant and inspiring. If you love cinema, 'Beaches' is a must see!
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07/01/09
The Beaches of Agnes (2009)
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Reviews Counted:57
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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
Varda's luminous depiction of a life lived well is entertaining, informative, and finally, inspirational.
03/01/09
The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself.
08/18/09
The Beaches Of Agnès is held together primarily by Varda’s wide-ranging interests and formidable storytelling skills. The movie is a digression built on a digression, branching near-infinitely.
07/03/09
Varda recalls her childhood, her adulthood, her politics, and how both her films and her two children were born. She doesn’t just show us, she takes us inside of it all, inside of her. It’s a reverie.
10/01/09
Top CriticThis trip down memory lane achieves more than just nostalgia.
04/23/09
A deftly assembled, wry and touching self-portrait of Agnès Varda as both a filmmaker and an endearing, indomitable spirit.
10/04/09
In this visually witty 2008 memoir she's poring over her own past and its artifacts.
08/20/09
[Varda] has a way of never explaining very much, and yet somehow making it all clear. She does this by not treating her life as a lesson in biography, but as the treasured memories of friends.
03/02/09
Top CriticUltimately, her movie is about how her life, anybody's life, is created out of oddments that never quite cohere, and don't need to. The sheer sensuousness of all these bric-a-brac memories is sustaining.
07/24/09
At 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
It's a unique, funny recollection of a life, through memories and moments.
10/29/09
A characteristically colorful, poignant work full of exquisite compositions and dreamlike reflections that serves as an ideal encapsulation of the Vardian sensibility.
07/09/09
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
Tender, truthful, happy-making: The Beaches of Agnes is a wonderful film by a wonderful woman.
10/02/09
A film as unique and impressive as its subject.
08/13/09
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
Compelling and intriguing, this is the perfect director's autobiography.
10/02/09
The Beaches of Agnès taps a haunting nostalgia, because it invites the art-house audience to get wistful for what it once was — that is, for a time when an artist like Varda only had to dream it, and we would come.
07/22/09
Top CriticA lifeless autobiography, a shadow of the director's genius, The Beaches of Agnès is strictly for the film historian.
06/29/09
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