Agnes Varda, an influential force behind the New Wave movement, has died at her home in Paris
A photographer-turned-filmmaker, Agnes Varda's films fluctuated between fiction and documentary, often blurring the line in between. May 24, 2015.
A close contemporary of cinema legends such as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Varda won an honorary Oscar in 2017 and the Berlin Film Festival's Berlinale Camera lifetime achievement award only last month.
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