Agnés Varda in February of this year at the Berlinale festival. Image: DPA/PA Images Agnés Varda in February of this year at the Berlinale festival. Image: DPA/PA Images THE PIONEERING FEMINIST filmmaker Agnes Varda has died, aged 90.
Varda was born in Belgium but lived in France, and was married to the late filmmaker Jaques Demy. She worked right up to the end of her life, with a new autobiographical documentary premiering at the Berlin film festival just last month. She won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival and a host of other awards for her 1985 film Vagabond, which looked – backwards – at the journey of a homeless woman who is found dead in a ditch. The social realism served to show how women on the margins could be treated when most vulnerable.
Varda was an uncompromising force in an industry which is only belatedly recognising the contribution of women. When she won an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2015, she became the first female to win the coveted award.
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