Retrospective: Agnès Varda

In recent years, Agnès Varda has become something of a meme: a cute grandmother who shows up as a cardboard cutout on the red carpet at the Oscars, as famous for her iconic hair as her films. But as the elegies following her death last year have reminded us, Varda has created one of cinema’s most singular, empathetic, and curiosity-filled bodies of work. This small retrospective provides a brief glimpse of her career and interests, which range from kickstarting the French New Wave (she made her first feature years before François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard) to making documentary/fiction hybrids long before it was a global trend. Viva Varda!