The Beaches of Agnès

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.

Agnès Varda

André Lubrano

Blaise Fournier

Vincent Fournier

Andrée Vilar

Stéphane Vilar

Christophe Vilar

Rosalie Varda

Mathieu Demy

Christophe Vallaux

Mireille Henrio

Didier Rouget

Anne-Laure Manceau

(Agnès Varda jeune)

Gerald Ayres

Jim McBride

Tracy McBride

Patricia Louisianna Knop

Zalman King

Richard Scarry

Eugene Kotlyarenko

Laura Betti

(Self (archive footage))

Jane Birkin

(Self/La croupière)

Sandrine Bonnaire

(Self (archive footage))

Antoine Bourseiller

(Self (archive footage))

Nino Castelnuovo

(Self (archive footage))

Robert De Niro

(Self (archive footage))

Constantin Demy

Jacques Demy

(Self (archive footage))

Joséphine Demy

Catherine Deneuve

(Self (archive footage))

Gérard Depardieu

(Le beatnik (archive footage))

France Dougnac

(Self (archive footage))

Harrison Ford

(Self (archive footage))

Charlotte Gainsbourg

(Self (archive footage))

Serge Gainsbourg

(Self (archive footage))

Julie Gayet

(Self (archive footage))

Emilien Lazaron

Michel Legrand

(Self (archive footage))

Valérie Mairesse

(Self (archive footage))

Sabine Mamou

(Self (archive footage))

Corinne Marchand

(Self (archive footage))

Chris Marker

(Self (archive footage))

Silvia Monfort

(Self (archive footage))

Yolande Moreau

(Self - racontant un souvenir d'enfance d'Agnès Varda)

Jim Morrison

(Self (archive footage))

Philippe Noiret

(Self (archive footage))

Michel Piccoli

(Self (archive footage))

James Rado

(Self (archive footage))

Gerome Ragni

(Self (archive footage))

Elizabeth Raiss

Alain René

Viva

(Self (archive footage))