The unutterably charming Cinévardaphoto brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnès Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.
Varda's photography is a pure joy, but rereleasing this film four decades later, absent any commentary on the ironic distance between then and now, is a typically challenging gesture.
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A welcome introduction to yet another facet of an artist who continues to beguile well into her seventies.
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The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Someone as attuned as Varda to the quality of an image should know that a flat, disposable medium like video makes images harder to internalize.
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New York Post
New York Post
Sitting through three totally unrelated documentaries in a row -- with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic) silences? That's a migraine waiting to happen.