2008 (Agnès Varda) 14A, 109 min
Starring: Agnes Varda
In French with English subtitles

"Perhaps the only filmmaker who has both won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and strolled around an art exhibition while costumed as a potato" is how The New York Times recently described Agnès Varda. This is a woman you gotta meet, and you can do so through her autobiographical documentary. Now 81, Varda is a French filmmaker of Left Bank Cinema, a similar movement to New Wave. In other words, linear plots and logic progression are not her forte. Instead, the inventive Beaches of Agnès unfolds like a memory, pausing to revisit places and people (notably Varda’s late husband, director Jacques Demy) and to revisit treasures gathered on life's journey. Set on her beloved beaches of Belgium, France and California, Varda infuses her self-portrait with humour, creativity and openness.