Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.196 |
| Birthday | 1928-05-30 |
| Place of Birth | Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| Also Known As | 아녜스 바르다, 阿涅斯·瓦尔达, 아그네스 바르다, 아그네스 바다, |
2021
The World in Shots
6.5/2
"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who...
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The World in Shots
1978
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
0/0
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are als...
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
2000
The Gleaners and I
7.7/180
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners...
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The Gleaners and I
1970
Viva Varda!
0/0
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French tele...
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Viva Varda!
2001
Janela da Alma
6.9/20
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they...
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Janela da Alma
2008
The Beaches of Agnès
7.7/119
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with t...
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The Beaches of Agnès
2023
Viva Varda!
8.4/4
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a s...
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Viva Varda!
1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
2/2
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1990
Pictures of Europe
0/0
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...
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Pictures of Europe
2003
Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
0/0
18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast.
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Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
1986
Ulysse
6.8/26
At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses,...
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Ulysse
2020
The Invention of Chris Marker
0/0
A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.
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The Invention of Chris Marker
1964
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
6/1
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabro...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1986
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
5.9/32
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque.
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You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
7/3
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with...
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2012
The 3 Lives of Agnès
0/0
The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist.
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The 3 Lives of Agnès
2017
A Visual History with Agnès Varda
0/0
Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017: from her childhood and early influences to her life w...
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A Visual History with Agnès Varda
2022
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
7.1/7
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-b...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
2019
Harumi
0/0
In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent decades painting, writing poetry and dancing in he...
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Harumi
1984
The So-Called Caryatids
6.2/38
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buil...
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The So-Called Caryatids
2019
Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma
0/0
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Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma
1963
Hello Cubans
7.4/45
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white docu...
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Hello Cubans
1967
Far from Vietnam
6.9/19
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietn...
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Far from Vietnam
2011
The First Interview
0/0
In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar interviews the famous scientist and sceptic Chevreul...
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The First Interview
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
0/0
Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prior Morrison media, Before the End’s focus is on the...
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Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
1975
La Vie filmée
0/0
An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953...
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La Vie filmée
2007
Women Behind the Camera
7/1
Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been s...
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Women Behind the Camera
2008
Shooting Women
0/0
Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generatio...
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Shooting Women
2005
Where is Sara Gómez?
2/1
Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great inte...
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Where is Sara Gómez?
2012
Two Street Artists
7/1
This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Paris between 2006 and 2012.
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Two Street Artists
1960
La Mélangite
0/0
Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. 1960)
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La Mélangite
1967
The Birth of Children of Paradise
0/0
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer,...
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
1993
The Young Girls Turn 25
7.1/22
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
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The Young Girls Turn 25
2009
Great Directors
5.9/16
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Vard...
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Great Directors
2011
In Chris Marker's Studio
6.2/5
Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.
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In Chris Marker's Studio
2007
From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
5/2
In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga.
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From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
2003
The Story of an Old Lady
5.7/6
A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond".
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The Story of an Old Lady
2013
Cinéast(e)s
0/0
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the...
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Cinéast(e)s
2017
Faces Places
7.7/376
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
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Faces Places
2014
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
4.8/5
Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the worl...
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Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
7.3/36
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a...
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Chance Is the Best Assistant
0/0
An interview with Agnes Varda and JR.
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Chance Is the Best Assistant
1967
Uncle Yanco
7.104/48
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she ha...
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Uncle Yanco
2014
The 8th Floor
0/0
On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lync...
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The 8th Floor
2019
Varda by Agnès
7.9/69
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal...
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Varda by Agnès
2018
Quinqui Stars
7.2/3
QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Madrid that af...
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Quinqui Stars
2018
#JR
6.3/5
At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, h...
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#JR
2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
9/3
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Roche...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
1977
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
8/2
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and t...
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
1969
Lions Love
5.9/35
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
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Lions Love
2018
Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
10/1
An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a major...
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Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
2002
The Truth About Charlie
4.9/168
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return...
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The Truth About Charlie
2008
The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
5.3/3
In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. st...
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The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
2007
Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD
0/0
Agnes Varda introduces a collection of her short films released to DVD.
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Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
0/0
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
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Henri Langlois vu par...
2000
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
0/0
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès V...
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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
1967
The Young Girls of Rochefort
7.7/590
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet...
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
1975
Women Reply
6.398/49
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted...
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Women Reply
1971
Nausicaa
6.8/6
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related...
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Nausicaa
1977
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
7/92
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suza...
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
2005
Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
6.9/9
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She t...
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
1981
Mur Murs
7.433/30
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye o...
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Mur Murs
2002
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
7/31
Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the ref...
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The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
1988
Calling the Shots
0/0
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
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Calling the Shots
2003
The Vanishing Lion
5.8/16
An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at th...
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The Vanishing Lion
2005
More So-called Caryatids
5.8/4
A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris.
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More So-called Caryatids
1975
Daguerréotypes
7.2/47
An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more...
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Daguerréotypes
2005
Rue Daguerre in 2005
6/2
Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976).
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Rue Daguerre in 2005
2008
Souvenirs and Evocations
0/0
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
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Souvenirs and Evocations
2008
Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
7/1
Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove...
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Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
1995
The World of Jacques Demy
6.5/13
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
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The World of Jacques Demy
1985
Vagabond
7.3/304
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her dea...
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Vagabond
1988
Jane B. for Agnès V.
6.7/53
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend t...
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
1991
Jacquot
7.5/51
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and...
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Jacquot
2004
Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
5.5/12
Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the...
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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
2006
The Widows of Noirmoutier
10/1
A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or...
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The Widows of Noirmoutier
2008
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
8/1
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2005
Not Like Before
0/0
From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we m...
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Not Like Before
1994
Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
0/0
"The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make, rightfully featured alongside his name on this documentary b...
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Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
2021
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
0/0
A Woman Watches People.
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150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
8.2/3
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
1983
One Minute for One Image
5.2/5
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
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One Minute for One Image
2021
Jim Morrison: The End
7/6
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson....
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Jim Morrison: The End
2016
EXPRMNTL
0/0
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Fest...
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EXPRMNTL
2005
Pain, peinture et accordéon
5/1
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Pain, peinture et accordéon
1981
Documenteur
6.8/42
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
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Documenteur
2002
Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
7/15
A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.
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