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The Films of Agnès Varda

Les fiancés du pont Macdonald

5m 43s

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France

Directed by Agnès Varda for her film CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, this short film stars her French new wave colleagues Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Eddie Constantine.

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  • Cléo from 5 to 7
    1:30:52
    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
    Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of ...

  • Salut les Cubains
    29:27
    Salut les Cubains

    Salut les Cubains

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1964 • France
    Starring Michel Piccoli

    Agnès Varda constructed this invigorating travelogue from over four hundred still photographs taken during a trip to Cuba in the wake of its 1959 revolution. Through fluid montage, the people captured by her camera come to playful, ...

  • Le bonheur
    1:20:48
    Le bonheur

    Le bonheur

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1965 • France
    Starring Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer

    Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attrac...

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