Brilliantly reinvents the autobiography in a glorious multi-media collage that eschews a standard biographical format, even as she incidentally provides facts.
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07/01/09
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
Another adorably whimsical yet casually profound documentary from France’s Agnès Varda.
07/01/09
In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy -- creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre.
07/01/09
Top CriticVarda'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!
07/01/09
The Beaches of Agnès is at once an illustration of the fine art of foraging and an autobiographical portrait.
07/01/09
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
a film that acknowledges time and age without completely giving into their grim results.
06/30/09
A lifeless autobiography, a shadow of the director's genius, The Beaches of Agnès is strictly for the film historian.
06/29/09
As insistently wry as it is haunting.
06/28/09
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 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
This trip down memory lane achieves more than just nostalgia.
04/23/09
[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 CriticVarda's luminous depiction of a life lived well is entertaining, informative, and finally, inspirational.
03/01/09
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
By turns insightful, schmaltzy, anecdotal, critical and nostalgic.
09/15/08
Playful and lucid, the film gives the heartening impression of endless hunger for people, experiences and images, of the camera's privileged ability to capture lived life.
09/15/08
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