Agnès Varda's movies: Where to get started

A short primer on how to acquaint yourself with the director's magnificent body of work

Agnes Varda.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)

"I am a woman," began director Agnès Varda in an interview with Indiewire, "working with her intuition and trying to be intelligent. It's like a stream of feelings, intuition, and joy of discovering things. Finding beauty where it's maybe not. Seeing."

This keen intuition and curiosity defined Varda's 60-plus years of filmmaking, and placed her among the most important directors of the 20th century.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.