French film legend Agnes Varda, the only woman director to emerge from the New Wave scene in the 1960s, has died aged 90, her family said on Friday.
Varda worked right up to the end of her life, with a new autobiographical documentary premiering at the Berlin film festival just last month. The pair made an unlikely but endearing double act. With her eyesight failing but imagination undimmed, Varda at one point admits, “Every new person I meet feels like my last one.”
But it was in her documentaries and films that mixed real-life events with fiction that Varda weaved her very particular brand of gritty poetry. Born in Belgium in 1928 to a French mother and Greek father whose family had fled Turkey, Varda changed her first name from Arlette to Agnes when she turned 18 and began her career as a photographer.
may her soul rest in peace Amen
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