Cast

Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier, Andrée Vilar, Stéphane Vilar, Christophe Vilar, Rosalie Varda, Alain René

Film description

When you look inside any person, you see landscapes, when you look inside me, you see beaches - says the octogenarian, but still very lively veteran of New Wave. In her film autobiography, Agnès Varda takes her audience on a journey through different internal landscapes. We can see beaches which symbolise her childhood in Belgium, her marriage to Jacques Demy (director of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), years of her feminist struggles, journeys, emotions related to making her films. In The Beaches Varda's talent flourishes. She has always had an extraordinary skill for smoothly surpassing genres and styles, presenting feelings without sentimentalism, creating false realities without a pretentiously theatrical style. In her film diary, the director enchants her past, showing family photos, fragments of films, staging crucial events of her life, all with an ironic commentary. She looks back at her life, as if saying je ne regrette rien, because the most important thing is I'm alive and I remember.

Ewa Szabłowska