Should we be sad now that we have just learned that Agnès Varda died in Paris on 29 March? Of course. But would she herself have wanted a funeral song? I suspect not. When her life partner, the filmmaker Jacques Demy knew in 1990 that he did not have long to live, she portrayed him in Jacquot de Nantes as the playful boy he had been in his youth. Despite the sad occasion, it became a remarkably joyful and heartfelt mix of documentary, memory and ...
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