Agnès Varda died from cancer on March 29, 2019, in Paris, at the age of 90. Her death was confirmed by a spokeswoman from her production company, Ciné-Tamaris.
Agnès Varda had focused her directorial skills on nonfiction work that used her life and career as a foundation for philosophical ruminations and visual playfulness in recent years.
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Agnès Varda from breast cancer and her death drew a passionate response from the filmmaking community with Martin Scorsese releasing a statement writing, “I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else’s footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art.
Every single one of her remarkable handmade pictures, so beautifully balanced between documentary and fiction, is like no one else’s—every image, every cut … What a body of work she left behind: movies big and small, playful and tough, generous and solitary, lyrical and unflinching … and alive.”
Barry Jenkins tweeted, “Work and life were undeniably fused for this legend.
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