Beaches of Agnes is a documentary about French filmmaker Agnes Varda and her life growing up in France. Varda uses a wide variety of techniques, combining still images of people, including her past friends, collaborators, lovers and family, with what Claude Lévi-Strauss might term bricolage of garage-sale items, trinkets, and colorful memorabilia juxtaposed in creative combinations, and combines beautiful images in a collage format which revolves around the theme of beaches. In the opening shots, she has assistants film her bringing mirrors to a beach in Belgium which she used to visit as a young girl; one mirror is on the sand as a wave washes over it. She captures a creative French artistic sensibility with a sincere and playful appreciation for the beauty of film and art. Many of the images appear to be like old impressionist era paintings. Varda used clips from her own films and used them to convey her style. She uses people to re-inact various events from her child-hood in a lot of the sequences.
The look of the documentary was very surreal and avant garde. I give credit to whomever composed the beautiful images of this movie. It was very informative yet very artistic. Overall I give this movie a grade of -A.
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