Agnes Varda, French New Wave pioneer, 1928-2019: 'Chance has always been my best assistant'
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Mar 29, 2019
3 minutes
Death, the glorious filmmaker Agnes Varda once told an interviewer, did not scare her. She looked forward to it, in fact, "because then that will be that!"
And now, that is that. In her Paris home Varda died Thursday, at 90, from complications caused by breast cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement describing the Brussels-born multimedia artist, who first found success with photography, as a "joyful feminist" and a "passionate artist."
Few filmmakers anywhere enjoyed a heartier,
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