It's a way of saying, 'He's not totally gone.'
Six years ago, when her husband, French film maker There was a third film as well in Varda's generous homage to Demy, a documentary about the making of "Young Girls of Rochefort."

In addition to evincing Varda’s fascination with her adopted surroundings and her empathy, this perceptive short is also a powerful political statement. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by the women’s liberation movement. Replete with images of wonder and whimsy—the ocean reflected in a kaleidoscope of mirrors, the streets of Paris transformed into a sandy beach, the filmmaker herself ensconced in the belly of a whale—Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales.A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. For all that time, as they raised her daughter Rosalie, now 37, and their son Mathieu, now 23, they never made a film together.

Working with major stars for the first time on a feature film, Varda casts Michel Piccoli as a writer and Catherine Deneuve as his silent wife, a couple who relocate to the island of Noirmoutier (a longtime second home for Varda and her husband, Jacques Demy) where strange goings-on hint at a sinister force controlling the minds and actions of the residents. Agnès Varda et Jacques Demy Le nom d'Agnès Varda était inséparable de celui de son mari, le cinéaste Jacques Demy. At once impish and wise, Varda acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Made concurrently with Agnès Varda’s portrait of Jane Birkin, Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy—a dream project that she realized for him when he became too ill to direct it himself—is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man and an enchanting ode to the magic of cinema. Shot in Demy’s hometown of Nantes (including the house he grew up in), this imaginative blend of narrative and documentary traces his coming of age as he finds escape from the tumult of World War II in puppet shows, fairy tales, opera, and, above all, movies—the formative aesthetic experiences that would fuel his vivid Technicolor imagination and find unforgettable expression in his exuberant New Wave masterworks. I can't chant the pain or cover myself with ashes." "He never spoke for me, I never spoke for him," she says. After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. "I could stay with him as a film maker. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, Agnès Varda’s charming follow-up to her acclaimed documentary A late-career triumph of lovingly handcrafted humanism, Agnès Varda’s Academy Award–nominated penultimate film sees the octogenarian director joining forces with the thirty-something street photographer JR. Crisscrossing rural France in their roving camera-mobile—a truck that produces larger-than-life portraits of the people they meet, which are then pasted onto local walls—the pair encounter an array of farmers, former miners, dockworkers, and others whose stories form a collage of a country where meaningful traditions persist in the face of encroaching modernity. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. At once impish and wise, Varda acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. 29 marca 2019 w Paryżu) – francuska fotografka i reżyserka filmowa, przedstawicielka francuskiej Nowej Fali. Varda, Agnès (änyĕs` värdä`) 1928–2019, French filmmaker, b. Ixelles, Brussels. "I guess it was my way of going through the pain," the 67-year-old Varda said Monday during a visit to the San Francisco International Film Festival, which is showing two of her films, "The World of Jacques Demy" and "One Hundred and One Nights." I would (visit the set) once or twice, he would do the same for me." "The couple embracing. https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Agnes-Varda-on-Demy-Director-busy-with-her-2984391.php In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history.