#30 - Agnès Varda

Legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who will be a recipient of an honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes, is the focus of this week's episode. The director stopped by the Film Society during our second annual Art of the Real festival, during which she was honored with a sidebar retrospective entitled The Actualities of Agnès Varda. Art of the Real is founded on the most expansive possible view of documentary film, and the selections from Varda's work showed the director's repeated interest in the boundary between fiction and nonfiction. Even in her fictions films, she always incorporated elements of the real. Following a screening of her seminal debut, LA POINTE COURTE, Agnès Varda joined festival co-programmer Rachel Rakes for a Q&A. Besides sharing fascinating anecdotes from the making of the film, Varda also told stories of her interactions with other icons of French cinema like Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, and André Bazin. This podcast is brought to you by The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.com