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THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS
Written and Directed by Agnès Varda
Film opens in NYC on July 1, and in L.A. on July 3
Agnès Varda will be in Los Angeles on June 24 - July 6, she is available for interviews
Written and Directed by Agnès Varda
Film opens in NYC on July 1, and in L.A. on July 3
Agnès Varda will be in Los Angeles on June 24 - July 6, she is available for interviews
Cinema Guild is proud to present the US theatrical release of THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, directed by Agnès Varda.
This film will open at Film Forum in NYC on July 1, and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica 4-Plex, Sunset 5 and
Playhouse 7 in Pasadena on July 3. Agnès Varda will be in Los Angeles to attend a retrospective of her work and
Sneak Preview Screening of THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre (1328
Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA), June 24 - July 1, which will take place prior to the theatrical release of her new
film on July 3.
Agnès Varda, whom A.O. Scott in The New York Times deemed “a treasure” when writing about her acclaimed
documentary, "The Gleaners And I", returns with a movie that synthesizes 50 years of filmmaking, and 80 years of a
life well-lived. An early member of the French New Wave, Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-
Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret – not to mention Harrison Ford, the
Black Panthers and Viva. Stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the
‘60s, and of life in her 14e arrondissement Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and
fiction work. Husband/filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990, is an abiding presence. Varda is an avid collector:
of people and places, sensual experiences and intellectual preoccupations, personal commitments and political
principles. She is a mother and wife, a feminist, nature-lover and urban-dwelling artist. Above all, she is a woman in
love with the cinema whose new movie perfectly expresses her sentiment, “While I live, I remember.
Film's web site:
http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/index.htm
Information on the retrospective is at:
http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
This film will open at Film Forum in NYC on July 1, and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica 4-Plex, Sunset 5 and
Playhouse 7 in Pasadena on July 3. Agnès Varda will be in Los Angeles to attend a retrospective of her work and
Sneak Preview Screening of THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre (1328
Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA), June 24 - July 1, which will take place prior to the theatrical release of her new
film on July 3.
Agnès Varda, whom A.O. Scott in The New York Times deemed “a treasure” when writing about her acclaimed
documentary, "The Gleaners And I", returns with a movie that synthesizes 50 years of filmmaking, and 80 years of a
life well-lived. An early member of the French New Wave, Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-
Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret – not to mention Harrison Ford, the
Black Panthers and Viva. Stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the
‘60s, and of life in her 14e arrondissement Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and
fiction work. Husband/filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990, is an abiding presence. Varda is an avid collector:
of people and places, sensual experiences and intellectual preoccupations, personal commitments and political
principles. She is a mother and wife, a feminist, nature-lover and urban-dwelling artist. Above all, she is a woman in
love with the cinema whose new movie perfectly expresses her sentiment, “While I live, I remember.
Film's web site:
http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/index.htm
Information on the retrospective is at:
http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
“Spellbinding visual beauty that reminds you of the transporting power of pure cinema, in which images alone convey the ineffable. It attests to the undiminished creativity of a woman who has led a charmed life surrounded by art and artists. An attitude of surreal playfulness informs the visuals.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times [Four Stars] “A great, loving, uplifting film. Agnes Varda is a great director and a beautiful, lovable and wise woman, through and through. It is not enough that she made some of the first films of the French New Wave. Her greatest triumph is her life itself. If you have not seen a single film by Agnès Varda, perhaps it is best if you start with THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS.” – Roger Ebert "New Wave vet Varda has contrived a wondrous vehicle for recapturing watershed moments, a kind of cine memoir that filters her past through the many beaches, from Noirmoutier in France to the Pacific in California, that in some way shaped her.” – Erica Abeel, indieWIRE |