What’s a resilient auteur to do when their movie flops? After her 1966 film Les Créatures—now finally available for home viewing in a new Criterion Collection box set—failed to engage critics and ...

Film critic Carrie Rickey tells IndieWire about the iconic French New Wave director, the subject of Rickey's inspiring and compelling new biography "A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès ...

Agnès Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium and was raised in France. She attended the École du Louvre, studying art history and gained a strong interest in experimental and radical photography.

She was closely associated with the film movement known as the New Wave, although her reimagining of cinematic conventions predated it. Agnes Varda around 1969, while filming “Lions Love,” which ...