Conférence - Conversation d’Agnès avec Laure Adler et Rosalie Varda

"Inspiration, creation and sharing" were the three pillars of Agnès Varda's life. Rosalie, her daughter, will add "transmission", that fourth essential pillar. The one she built with her mother as early as 2006, abandoning her job as a costume designer, and which she has enriched since her mother's death in 2019, embracing her entire body of work and offering us (among other things) an extraordinary exhibition, "Viva Varda!", which we saw at the Cinémathèque last year and which you'll be able to see again this summer in Barcelona. In the meantime, let's take a look at the first biography devoted to Agnès Varda, who started out as a photographer without knowing she was a photographer, a filmmaker without knowing she was a filmmaker, and an artist without knowing she was an artist.

That's certainly what makes her so charming, her bewitching charm, the charm of her voice and her eyes, the charm of that graceful "potato" into which she transformed herself for the duration of a performance, the charm of her films too, sincere, funny, serious, generous, sometimes cruel, including : Le Bonheur, Cléo de 5 à 7, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, Les plages d'Agnès, Visages, villages and Jane B. par Agnès V., a mirror film that says as much about her as it does about her lovely subject. Agnès V par Laure A (Agnès Varda par Laure Adler, published by Gallimard) allows us to rediscover her eminently personal, delicate, aesthetic and committed work, through a style of writing full of tenderness and complicity which, in the words of Stendhal, "walks her mirror along the way", and in so doing, shows us the multiple facets of this extraordinary force of life and creation.

Reservations required. Please confirm your attendance by writing to agnesbouquet75@gmail.com.