The Beaches of Agnès
Les Plages d'Agnès
Release: 2008-12-17
·Runtime: 110m
·★ 7.6
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Ciné-Tamaris
ARTE France Cinéma
Cast
Agnès Varda
as Self
Rosalie Varda
as Self
Mathieu Demy
as Self
Jim McBride
as Self
Patricia Louisianna Knop
as Self
Zalman King
as Self
Richard Scarry
as Self
Eugene Kotlyarenko
as Self
Laura Betti
as Self (archive footage)
Jane Birkin
as Self/La croupière
Sandrine Bonnaire
as Self (archive footage)
Antoine Bourseiller
as Self (archive footage)
Nino Castelnuovo
as Self (archive footage)
Robert De Niro
as Self (archive footage)
Jacques Demy
as Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve
as Self (archive footage)
Gérard Depardieu
as Le beatnik (archive footage)
France Dougnac
as Self (archive footage)
Harrison Ford
as Self (archive footage)
Charlotte Gainsbourg
as Self (archive footage)
Serge Gainsbourg
as Self (archive footage)
Julie Gayet
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand
as Self (archive footage)
Valérie Mairesse
as Self (archive footage)
Sabine Mamou
as Self (archive footage)
Corinne Marchand
as Self (archive footage)
Chris Marker
as Self (archive footage)
Silvia Monfort
as Self (archive footage)
Yolande Moreau
as Self - racontant un souvenir d'enfance d'Agnès Varda
Jim Morrison
as Self (archive footage)
Philippe Noiret
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Piccoli
as Self (archive footage)
James Rado
as Self (archive footage)
Gerome Ragni
as Self (archive footage)
Viva
as Self (archive footage)
