Agnès Varda: Major Retrospective

Grande retrospetiva Agnès Varda

Cinema 5 € a 8 €

Monday 21 September · until 2 Oct

Cinema Nimas hosts the largest Agnès Varda retrospective ever held in Portugal, with 36 films spanning features, shorts, fiction and documentary, celebrating the work of the Belgian filmmaker.

Agnès Varda (1928-2019), a Belgian filmmaker who built her career in French cinema, is celebrated this summer with a major retrospective, the largest to date in Portugal, at Cinema Nimas. The programme includes 36 films, from features to shorts, fiction and documentary. A filmmaker of great curiosity and freedom, a pioneer, she created a unique body of work that today inspires other directors. Her film debut came in 1954 with Le Pointe Court, edited by Alain Resnais, which heralded what would become the Nouvelle Vague movement. Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) is an example of the audacity of this new movement and of a director whose experimental style is always present. In 1985, with Sans Toit ni loi, she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Her work, in which documentary and fiction blur, constantly includes social criticism, feminism and a critical look at current affairs. Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (2000), a moving film about gleaners—people who recover and recycle the leftovers and debris that others throw away—mirrors precisely that contemporaneity. Agnès Varda is also often a central figure in her own work. In Les plages d’Agnès (2008), an autobiographical documentary, she delves into her memories, returning to the beaches of her life and, once again with humour and emotion, builds a narrative that reveals her life's journey. AF. Screenings coming soon here. Films to be shown. Feature films. Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961). Le Bonheur (1964). Les Créatures (1966). Lions Love (… And Lies) (1969). L’une chante, l’autre pas (1976). Sans Toit ni loi (1985). Kung-Fu Master! (1987). Les Cent et une nuits de Simon. Cinéma (1994). Documentaries. Mur Murs (1980). Documenteur (1980). Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987). Jacquot de Nantes (1990). Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1992). L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995). Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (2000). Les glaneurs et la glaneuse… deux ans. après (2002). Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier (2006). Les plages d’Agnès (2008). Short films. Du côté de la côte (1958). Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald (1961). Salut les Cubains (1963). Elsa la Rose (1965). Uncle Yanco (1967). Black Panthers (1968). Réponse de femmes (1975). Plaisir d’amour en Iran (1976). Ulysse (1982). 7 Pieces Cuisine Salle De Bain (1984). Les Dites cariatides (1984). T’as de beaux escaliers, tu sais (1986). Le Lion volatil (2003). Ydessa, les ours et etc (2004). 5 € a 8 €. Agnès Varda retrospective.