A Complicated Passion
The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
- Auteur: Carrie Rickey (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Comapany
- Verschijnt: 13 augustus 2024
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $29,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Carrie Rickey A Complicated Passion Agnès Varda biografie recensie en review
- “I devoured A Complicated Passion happily and so, I suspect, will you. It sent me rushing to the Criterion Channel to rewatch Varda’s movies.” (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
- “Varda mania has fully arrived—and stands to continue with this new biography from Carrie Rickey, a former film critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, who shows how the French New Wave filmmaker’s life inspired her deceptively light meditations on the passage of time, women’s rights, and more.” (Art in America)
- “Film critic Rickey delivers the definitive biography of French filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019)…Rickey captures Varda’s tenacity and pluck, serving up a portrait of an artist determined to succeed on her own terms. This is a must for cinephiles.” (Publishers Weekly)
Flaptekst van de biografie van Agnès Varda geschreven door Carrie Rickey
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”
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 Awards.
In this lively biography, former Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey explores the “complicated passions” that informed Varda’s charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda’s three remarkable careers—as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. She demonstrates how Varda was years ahead of her time in addressing sexism, abortion, labor exploitation, immigrant rights, and race relations with candor and incisiveness. She makes clear Varda’s impact on contemporary figures like Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, the Safdie brothers, and Martin Scorsese, who called her one of the Gods of cinema. And she delves into Varda’s incredibly rich social life with figures such as Harrison Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Morrison, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol, and her nearly forty-year marriage to the celebrated director Jacques Demy.
A Complicated Passion is the vibrant biography that Varda, regarded by many as the greatest female filmmaker of all time, has long deserved.
Born in Los Angeles, Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic, art critic, and film historian. She was the film critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years and has also written for Artforum, Art in America, Film Comment, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Politico. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia.