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Agnès Varda

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

9.73body-of-work score · ranked #92 of 2631 directors · 10 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
May 30, 1928 · Ixelles
Died
March 29, 2019 · 14th arrondissement of Paris
Nationality
France, Belgium
Work
photographer, visual artist, screenwriter, university teacher
Movement
feminist art, French New Wave
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Agnès Varda
Martin Kraft · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    VagabondSans toit ni loiMust-See #141

    1985 · France · drama

    Venice Golden Lion winner 1985 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #41 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #101

    3.129 citations
  2. 2
    Cléo from 5 to 7Cléo de 5 à 7Must-See #451

    1962 · France / Italy · drama

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #14 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #52 · Criterion Collection spine #73

    1.816 citations
  3. 3
    HappinessLe Bonheur

    1965 · France · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1966 #3 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #152 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1965 #10

    1.364 citations
  4. 4
    The Gleaners and ILes Glaneurs et la Glaneuse

    2000 · France · documentary

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #67 · Film Comment year-end poll 2001 #9 · Sarris's annual top 10 2001 #4

    1.295 citations
  5. 5
    Faces PlacesVisages, villages

    2017 · France · documentary

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2018 #7 · Rolling Stone 100 Best of the 21st Century #23 · Film Comment year-end poll 2017 #8

    1.094 citations
  6. 6
    Far from VietnamLoin du Vietnam

    1967 · France · documentary, drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1968 #9

    0.301 citation
  7. 7
    The Beaches of AgnèsLes Plages d'Agnès

    2008 · France · documentary

    Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #9

    0.301 citation
  8. 8
    La Pointe Courte

    1955 · France · drama

    Criterion Collection spine #419

    0.161 citation
  9. 9
    One Sings, the Other Doesn'tL'une chante, l'autre pas

    1977 · France · drama

    Criterion Collection spine #978

    0.161 citation
  10. 10
    Jacquot de Nantes

    1991 · France · drama, biography

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1993 #10

    0.141 citation

Complete filmography

All 42 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1955La Pointe Courte
  • 1958Du côté de la côte
  • 1958L'opéra-mouffe
  • 1958La Cocotte d'Azur
  • 1958Ô saisons ô chateaux
  • 1961The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald
  • 1962Cléo from 5 to 7
  • 1963Salut les Cubains
  • 1965Christmas Carole
  • 1965Happiness
  • 1966Elsa la rose
  • 1966Les Créatures
  • 1966Les Enfants du musée
  • 1967Far from Vietnam
  • 1967Uncle Janco
  • 1968Black Panthers
  • 1969Lions Love
  • 1975Daguerréotypes
  • 1975Women Reply
  • 1976The Pleasure of Love in Iran
  • 1977One Sings, the Other Doesn't
  • 1981Documenteur
  • 1982Mural Murals
  • 1982Ulysse
  • 19847p., cuis., s. de b., ...à saisir
  • 1984The So-called Caryatids
  • 1985Vagabond
  • 1986You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
  • 1988Jane B. par Agnès V.
  • 1988Kung Fu Master
  • 1991Jacquot de Nantes
  • 1993The Young Girls Turn 25
  • 1995One Hundred and One Nights
  • 1995The World of Jacques Demy
  • 2000The Gleaners and I
  • 2002Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après
  • 2003Le lion volatil
  • 2004Ydessa, les ours et etc...
  • 2005Some Widows of Noirmoutier
  • 2008The Beaches of Agnès
  • 2017Faces Places
  • 2019Varda by Agnès