Less than a week before its opening ceremony, the Cannes International Film Festival announced on its website that the Soixantième room, located on the roof of the Riviera since 2007, would take the name of the multi-award-winning director.
This is the second tribute paid by the festival to this pioneer of New Wave cinema, after having dedicated its poster to her the year of her death, in 2019.
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The festival thus salutes
“Agnès Varda, passion, tenderness, playfulness.
Sixty-five years of creation and experimentation”
and also celebrates the long history he shares with the one who was also a photographer and visual artist
.
A story that finds its source in 1962, when Agnès Varda presents
Cléo from 5 to 7
in official competition and which continues two years later with the supreme coronation, the Palme, of Jacques Demy, her husband, for
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
.
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"The Big Little Agnes"
Member of the feature film jury in 2005 and president of the Camera d'Or jury in 2013, she was subsequently rewarded for her entire work in 2015 with a Palme d'honneur, a distinction previously awarded exclusively to men.
She had then dedicated it "
to all inventive and courageous filmmakers, those who create original cinema, fiction or documentary, who are not in the light but who continue".
Finally, in 2017, the documentary
Faces Villages
, produced in collaboration with the artist JR, was awarded the festival's Œil d'Or.
Originally named the “Salle du Soixantième” in 2007, on the occasion of the sixtieth edition of the mythical festival, the new Agnès Varda hall is an
“essential”
screening room for it.
"Each spectator will feel the symbol, the value, the emotion"
, announces the festival on its website.
The children of Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda and Mathieu Demy expressed their emotion:
“We are proud and moved that the Cannes Film Festival is once again honoring the great little Agnès
”.
“Long live the Festival!
Long life to the cinema!”
, they conclude.
