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The Beaches of Agnes

Les Plages d'Agnès

2008

Agnès Varda

Documentary, Self: Agnès Varda, Yolande Moreau

7.4

751

Documentary Autobiopraphic documentary about the director Agnes Várda. The french woman explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a great, loving, uplifting film. It provides an ideal of a life well-lived (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda (...) It’s a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A witty and engaging cine-autobiography (...) An elegant, eccentric and distinctively literary meditation on the Proustian themes of memory and self (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[Varda's] most audacious and original film"
		Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"Playful, intelligent and delicate (...) Tender, truthful, happy-making: 'The Beaches of Agnes' is a wonderful film by a wonderful woman (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ronnie Scheib Variety	"[It] is by turns insightful, schmaltzy, anecdotal, critical and nostalgic"
		Noel Murray AV Club	"For the most part it is fascinating, in large part because Varda approaches her own life with such puckish wit"
		Patrick Peters Empire	"Compelling and intriguing, this is the perfect director's autobiography (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"In 'The Beaches of Agnès', you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world."
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"'The Beaches of Agnès' is a puckish, moving and wonderfully eccentric tour through her life (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Edelstein New York Magazine	"One job of memoir is to show the world through another’s eyes and inspire you to live more alertly, and that is the glory of 'The Beaches of Agnès'."
		Eric Henderson Slant	"'Beaches' is as insistently wry as it is haunting (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Visually witty"

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