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Sitting through three totally unrelated documentaries in a row -- with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic) silences? That's a migraine waiting to happen.
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Varda's photography is a pure joy, but rereleasing this film four decades later, absent any commentary on the ironic distance between then and now, is a typically challenging gesture.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Three short documentaries about photography made by one of France's finest directors.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
A masterful collection of cinematic essays.
80
A work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity, Agnès Varda's Cinévardaphoto is a suite of documentary shorts.
70
A welcome introduction to yet another facet of an artist who continues to beguile well into her seventies.
80
Varda renders the political personal and the personal universal.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
The unutterably charming Cinévardaphoto brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnès Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.
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Someone as attuned as Varda to the quality of an image should know that a flat, disposable medium like video makes images harder to internalize.
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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.