A Complicated Passion

Title: A Complicated Passion Author: Carrie Rickey Biography: 1689163 ISBN: 9781324110453 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Award