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09/17/09
The Beaches of Agnes (2009)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:55
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
The flights of fancy settle down toward the film's end and Varda increasingly comes across as a very smart and rather charming citizen of the real world, as opposed to an artist too out-there to be relatable.
09/11/09
Replete with clips and anecdotes, The Beaches of Agnes is a treat to anyone who already cherishes Varda's films and a perfect primer for those who haven't yet discovered her work.
09/11/09
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 CriticIn this visually witty 2008 memoir she's poring over her own past and its artifacts.
08/20/09
The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself.
08/18/09
A film as unique and impressive as its subject.
08/13/09
Ultimately, 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
An octogenarian French auteur looks back on her life, times and movies in this engagingly jaunty documentary.
07/24/09
This is a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agnès Varda, at 81 the still spry grande dame of the Nouvelle Vague that revolutionized French and world cinema in the late 1950s and early 60s.
07/24/09
Top CriticIntensely personal and universally adaptable, The Beaches of Agnès is at once Varda's gift to posterity, and to a world that that undervalues the small and seemingly insignificant events through which we drift unconsciously, but which leave a mark.
07/24/09
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 CriticIn 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
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
Agnes Varda shows us what modern film making is all about in a whimsical look at a cinematic genius.
07/08/09
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
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
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
A sentimental, whimsical autobiography.
07/03/09
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
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