Jennifer Cazenave Pens Tribute to Varda
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, has published a tribute to the recently departed Agnés Varda.
Varda, a Belgium born French film director, helped pioneer the influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. She passed away on March 29 of this year.
Cazenave’s tribute, “Une Française á Los Angeles: Remembering Agnés Varda,” appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Cazenave writes:
[Varda] was a filmmaker who spent decades archiving memories with her camera — of murals and muralists in Mur Murs; of Jacques Demy in Jacquot de Nantes (1991); of herself in The Beaches of Agnès (2008); and, most recently, of her own films in Varda by Agnès (2019). There are many ways to remember Agnès Varda — I will remember her time as an L.A. outsider and the first memories of the city that she gave me, long before I ever arrived.