Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda, born May 30, 1928, in Ixelles, Belgium, is the director and photographer whose first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), was a precursor of the French New Wave movies of the 1960s. Varda was a student at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre and later became a photographer. As the official photographer of…