The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda, the Belgian-born French filmmaker, is universally recognised as the “the godmother of the French New Wave”, influencing directors from Jean-Luc Godard to Alain Resnais with her early films, such as La Pointe Courte (1954). A pioneering female auteur, she is also renowned for the way she trained her female and feminist gaze on women as social subjects - including older women, and notably herself. Starting out as a photographer, she worked ceaselessly from the early 1950s until h...