Agnès Varda Season

Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks.

Varda’s heartbreaking film opens with the jarring death of a young homeless woman, and goes on to tell her story through accounts by people who barely knew her and who touched her life over her final weeks. A stunning tale, brilliantly told. With an introduction by Jemma Desai from I am Dora.

Varda’s breakthrough film, Cléo from 5 to 7 is the story of a pampered chanteuse waiting for the results of a biopsy which will potentially change her life. Plus introduction by Jemma Desai from I am Dora.

Charting her extraordinary life with verve and humour, Agnès is the guide to her own life, taking a reflective journey through her Belgian childhood, her career in photography, and her switch to the moving image in the 1950s.

A film all about finding value where others see nothing, this beautiful and eccentric documentary is the result of the filmmaker spending a year touring France to find and talk to the people who scavenge and salvage food left over by others.