'She’s an inspiration. She gave to my brother and me the curiosity of being alive, of looking.'
he thought, ‘Well, you’re right. Because in fact, my life, has been a body of work. I have been through…technology.’ She started with a darkroom and finished with the iPhone. She said, ‘Maybe for the younger generation, they don’t even know what is the darkroom.’Varda on the cover of the very first issue of Interview Magazine in 1969.
VARDA: Yes. And I helped on the production in the company, which is my mother, my brother, Mathieu Demy, film director and actor, and me. And we always worked on the body of work of Jacques Demy. I mean, all his films. We restored and digitized Jacques Demy’s films and we restored and digitized all of Agnès’ films. And now we’re working on this catalogue. We do work a lot with Janus and Criterion.I was in an art and cinema family and as a little girl, I loved to dress up.
I worked with my father, Jacques Demy, on several films, and I worked in theater, in opera halls, in dance, I mixed everything.VARDA: To be honest with you, I don’t look too much at TV series. I don’t have time. But I really like the filmI think it’s very interesting, on the subject, ‘What is madness?’ What is the border? While your madness is on the edge and how it’s a little bit structured to stay in your life, and yet you manage your life.Agnès Varda. Photo courtesy Ciné-Tamaris.
This is cinema. When you look at a film like that, there’s no doubt about cinema. I know there’s a polemic now,He did it in a conversation, and if you take it out of the conversation, it suddenly creates a fuss. I don’t understand the polemic. I think it’s two different worlds. It’s like if you’re comparing literature, fiction and comic books. Diversity is only what matters. People are able to choose to go and see the films. They’re not obliged. The diversity is the rich thing of the culture.
WILLIAMS: Agnès has inspired so many people to follow the dream of cinema. I’m also a filmmaker, and I have to tell you that the most recent film that I made was a film about my experiences with grief. I called it
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