A new Criterion Collection box set encompasses the filmmaker’s work—and reminds of her time spent in Chicago.
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Legendary artist Agnès Varda schools Chicago on filmmaking and photography
Agnès Varda’s directorial debut, La Pointe Courte (1954), anticipated the French New Wave with its documentary feel, associative editing, and bold, tableaulike imagery. Her later films Le Bonheur (1964) and One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) are considered touchstones of feminist cinema. And with such innovative documentaries as Uncle Yanco (1967) and The Gleaners & […]