Agnès Varda was a Belgian photographer, artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. The French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s was greatly influenced by her groundbreaking work, which played a pivotal role in its development.
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Varda used location filming in her work during a time when sound technology was still in its infancy and it was more convenient and customary to film indoors, indoors with built sets and painted landscape backdrops, as opposed to outside.
Varda passed away in Paris on March 29, 2019, due to cancer, at the age of 90. The 2nd of April saw her interment at Montparnasse Cemetery.
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Who is Queen of the New Wave Agnès Varda?
Often referred to as the “godmother of the French New Wave,” Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born filmmaker best known for her groundbreaking films “La Pointe Courte” and “Cléo From 5 to 7,” which defied conventional narrative conventions and impacted filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Varda passed away in her Parisian residence. She was 90 years old.
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