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Agnès Varda: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 30, 1928 • Ixelles • Belgium
Died March 29, 2019 (aged 90) • Paris • France
Notable Works documentary film • “Cleo from 5 to 7” • “Faces Places” • “Happiness” • “Jacquot de Nantes” • “La Pointe Courte” • “One Hundred and One Nights” • “The Beaches of Agnès” • “The Creatures” • “The Gleaners and I”

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Agnes Varda in 2018, wearing a black and white polka dot scarf over a floral top, with her signature two-tone bob hairstyle, looking at the camera.
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Jean Renoir
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Elliott Erwitt
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Shirin Neshat
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Gordon Parks
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Man Ray was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Man Ray
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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
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Larry Clark
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Frank, Robert
Robert Frank
Swiss American photographer and director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
French Swiss film director
Alejandro Jodorowsky, with white hair and beard, wearing a dark sweater, smiles in front of a blue and red background at an event in 2017.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
French filmmaker
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac
French filmmaker
French director Francois Truffaut stands at right speaking with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during filming of La Sirene du Mississippi on a city street.
François Truffaut
French director
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Jacques Tourneur
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Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
French film director
Roman Polanski in a close-up portrait, wearing a white collared shirt and dark jacket, smiling slightly at the Cannes Film Festival.
Roman Polanski
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Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
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RenĂŠ Clair
French director
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Claude Lanzmann
French writer and film director
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Éric Rohmer
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