If it comes to the old age,
Normal should be to raise the old age, with the grandchildren,
No more energy to toss,
But this 90-year-old lady may be able to break your perception.
88 years old,
Traveling with 35-year-old handsome JR,
Visit French villages,
Take pictures of ordinary people you meet,
The documentary was nominated for an Oscar.
Age 89,
Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 90th Academy Awards,
She became the first female director to win an Honorary Oscar.
90 years old,
She made a film called Agnès on Varda,
Looking back on his life's film and television creation,
Give yourself a birthday present,
She is Varda.
© Agnès on Varda
01
If it weren't for fun,
Who wants to live to be 90?
90-year-old Varda,
There is no dull look of an old man.
Large round gray eyes,
Mushroom head, brightly dressed.
She couldn't stand the monotonous colors,
So whether it's makeup or days,
All lived brightly and happily.
At nearly 90 years old, she has a young and open heart.
She always has a steady stream of ideas and ideas in her head.
"Am I trying to grasp the fleeting past?"
No, I'm just for fun. ”
So, it's for fun,
Her journey with the young JR began.
An 80-year-old girl with a two-colored mushroom head,
A handsome 35-year-old guy with sunglasses,
A pair of interesting souls,
A small truck that can be washed immediately,
That's all there is to travel.
Walk through the villages of France,
Take huge pictures of ordinary people you meet,
Sticking on the wall,
Showcasing different stories and lives.
On the go,
This pair of young and old, with an age difference of half a century,
But there is not a trace of estrangement,
Varda jumped even more than JR.
In a wheelchair at the Louvre,
Let JR push her through the famous paintings,
Tribute to the old friend Gorda's film "Beyond the Law",
Varda is like a maiden running in a field of flowers.
© Varda and JR at the Louvre
© "Beyond the Law"
Hear your favorite songs on the pickup truck,
Dancing like JR.
The years left only wrinkles on her face,
Her heart was always bright and happy like a child.
She didn't like it when JR wore sunglasses all day and didn't show his true face.
In order to make him take off his sunglasses,
The old lady played a little temper several times.
© Stills from "Face, Village"
Jr., 35, faces 88-year-old Varda,
Not the kind of deference and respect for the elderly,
It's more about treating friends with respect and affection.
They are also very relaxed and pleasant to get along,
Like two big kids.
Knowing that Agnès has an eye disease,
JR took pictures of Agnès' eyes and feet,
Stick them on the train,
Instead of her, she went to a distant place that could no longer be reached.
Varda went to visit his old friend Gorda but ate the closed door,
To comfort this sentimental old lady,
JR took off his sunglasses,
Varda smiled as she wished,
"Actually, I can't see it clearly.
But I finally see you!
Let's see the sea. ”
And they just went all the way and shot all the way,
No script,
But I was surprised and touched along the way.
02
The godmother of the new wave that came out of the small fishing village
Varda was born in 1928,
Childhood was spent in Barcelona.
The outbreak of World War II,
The whole family was forced to flee to France,
The family struggles in a small fishing village.
To fill your stomach,
As a teenager, she learned to tinker with fishing nets.
But soon
The small fishing village could not hold her heart to escape.
© Varda filming "The Short Horn Affair"
At the age of 18, she came to Paris alone,
No money to pay rent,
She lives in an abandoned house.
No heating, no shower, only a simple toilet,
That's where Varda's dream began.
To earn a living,
Varda studied photography,
Help others mend their photos, take pictures of their neighbors,
Open a film festival in your own yard.
Varda, who hasn't seen a few movies,
The idea of making a movie came to mind.
Think of anything and do it,
Just to show what's going on in your head,
Strong desire to express and share,
It is an indispensable potential for many good directors.
In 1954 she wrote and directed her first short film
"The Short Horn Affair" was a great success,
She has also been called the "Mother of French New Wave Cinema",
Since then, she has begun her extraordinary career as a director.
Recalling the past, Varda lamented:
"If at that time I knew that there were so many great works,
I probably wouldn't dare make a movie in my lifetime. ”
Realizing dreams in addition to hard work and sweat,
It also takes a little courage to challenge and the fearlessness of the ignorant.
In 1962,
Varda's Cleo from 5:00 to 7:00
Shortlisted for the main competition section in Cannes.
These two works are enough to make Varda famous in the film world,
But how could she stop there?
In her more than 60 years of directing career,
He has directed more than thirty works
Although it is not a classic,
But her position in the world of directing is still irreplaceable.
© A feminist parade in the film "One Sings, One Doesn't Sing"
She's been a feminist since she was 19 years old.
Physical behavior women's rights to run.
In 1971,
She co-signed the 343 Slut's Declaration with her companions.
demanding that the French government legalize abortion,
It was successful in 1975.
She used her life's work to give women a voice,
Responding to the feminist topic of that era.
The Creation (1966),
Lion, Love, Lie (1969),
Woman's Voice: Our Body, Our Sex (1975),
"A Thousand Faces, Treasure Gold", "Kung Fu Master" (1988)
......
© Stills from "A Thousand Faces of Treasure Gold"
Her films have attracted a lot of attention,
But she was forced to get involved in different feminist cultural contexts
Tearing and exploiting its cinematic text,
In the midst of criticism and questioning,
But she never stopped fighting,
She has the courage to do the right thing.
03
My love for you is hidden in the sound and color images
At the mention of Varda,
People always think of her husband Jacques Demi,
Equally famous French director.
There has never been a shortage of dazzling screen couples in the history of cinema,
But a long-held director couple like Demi and Varda,
I'm afraid I can't find a second pair.
© Agnès with her husband Demi
The two live together in the movie they love,
Thin water flows for a long time, and foams with each other,
Having a son and a daughter, the family is happy.
Movies are the magic of time,
But the filmmakers were not pardoned by time.
God chose to take Demy,
Demi fell ill and will die shortly.
© Varda's last photo with Demi
Jacques Demi wrote from his hospital bed reminiscing about his childhood,
Demy's body is getting weaker and weaker,
She knew she couldn't keep her husband.
That is, the heavens and men are separated,
Heartbroken, Varda wanted to do something for her husband.
"If I had photographed your childhood,
Wouldn't you be happier? ”
"Yes."
So there was this "Jacques Demi of Nantes",
This movie is like a love letter,
It tells the story of Varda's love for the man who has been with her for 40 years.
She put her appreciation for her husband,
Thick love blends into the sound and color image,
The love of all the characters in the movie for Jacques,
It's all Varda's love for her husband.
During filming,
The two are also inseparable,
Always forget to show love.
Varda sat in front of the monitor holding the sick Demy,
Holding his hand tightly,
As if to show off:
Look, this wonderful man I'm shooting,
It's mine.
Demi reciprocated with the same affection for Varda,
Varda, who often looks at the strategizing on the set,
You can see God.
As if to say:
see! This wonderful woman in front of me is my wife,
I was the love of her life.
In this way, Varda returned to her husband's childhood,
It was a wonderful affection.
Demi finally left a week before the film was finished.
At the end of the film,
The camera caresses Demi's wrinkled skin, dry fingers,
Lesions of the marks and gray hair.
No tears, no cries,
Only affectionate and silent misses.
© Stills from Jacques Demi of Nantes
Despite the documentary memories,
Varda still has a hard time releasing Wildmi's death,
People who have loved deeply are not so easy to let go.
She photographed couples who had been married for more than 40 years,
The couple under the lens lives in love and harmony,
She is so envious,
If Demi hadn't died,
They can also grow old happily together.
Her heart aches so much,
Demi actually left like this,
Along with that happy life, it was also taken away.
© Varda and Demi in their youth
All of Demi's stuff, Varda didn't throw away a single thing,
She didn't want to. For more than 60 years,
She still lives in that little courtyard on the rue da Galle in Paris,
There are memories of her and Demi.
Days without you,
I will not be overly sad,
But I still think of you from time to time.
I'm going to live my life well.
You have to be fine over there, too.
One day, we will be reunited.
04
Interesting souls are the anti-aging medicine
After Demi's death,
Varda was depressed for nearly a decade,
In addition to filming two other works in succession that remember Mead,
There are no new works.
Aging, illness and death for her,
It's also a very heavy thing.
As they get older, they choose to escape
The traces that the years have brought to themselves,
Some people are afraid of wrinkles, so choose to desperately maintain,
Some people are afraid of age, so they refuse to celebrate birthdays,
Fear that everything is a reminder that aging is inevitable.
But aging is really inevitable,
Accept the traces of time with openness,
Facing life and death is difficult.
"Panic at the age of 80,
Time was coming at me like a train. ”
So Varda made a lot of films to look back on his life,
But when she faces the media on her 90th birthday,
She looked at the camera, raised her hands, and shouted:
"I'm 90 years old and I don't care!
© Agnès grimaced at his younger self
When aging is bearable,
People will panic, complain, run away,
And when a certain tipping point is broken,
You no longer choose to fight against age, against aging,
Instead, it became calm.
Varda finally chose to face his own aging,
In The Gleaner,
She records rotten potatoes
and their own aging skin, hands covered with age spots,
Watch the heart-shaped potatoes go from round and full to, budding, and crumpling,
It's like seeing the crease of life.
© Potato Utopia
"I like wrinkles and palms.
I'm interested in what can happen to one hand.
That could be a lovely picture.
So I'm enjoying my aging.
I also like to see things being destroyed naturally and gradually. ”
She chose to respect all the traces that the years had left on her,
Look at every wrinkle in your life with a playful mindset,
Instead of making weak resistance,
She chose to enjoy.
© Agnès Varda, dressed in a homemade potato suit, is exhibited in Potato Utopia
At the age of 90, the media asked her if she still had dreams.
"I want to die in peace,
At my age,
Death is indeed my dream,
Not because of an accident, not because of illness,
Instead, they leave unconsciously in calm. ”
Living too long is sometimes a pain,
Watching the relatives and friends around them leave them one by one,
Count your remaining days with your fingers,
Varda missed Demi a little.
Her cat Tsiggugu is also one step ahead of her,
She buried Tsuggu in the garden,
Made a stop motion animation for it,
Its tomb is sprinkled with flowers and shells.
Death should not be a painful thing,
Her cat is no exception.
© Agnès,"The Tomb of Tsugoo"
As if foreshadowing in advance that his life was coming to an end,
After the release of the last film " Agnès on Varda "
Varda says:
"I'm really going to be ready to say goodbye."
After submitting the last answer sheet for 60 years of directing career,
Varda is also about to go to the last dream of her life,
Leave calmly.
Thousands of vast,
We exist only briefly.
And then find peace in the sand and the wind,
And eventually disappears in the blur.
"All death leads me back to Jacques,
Every tear, every bouquet of flowers,
Every rose, every begonia,
All are flowers dedicated to Jacques. ”
Varda loved Demy all his life,
She was walking step by step towards her lover.
©JR lifts a colorful balloon into the air with Varda, remembering his old friend in a childlike way
On March 28, 2019,
God took this lovely mushroom-headed old girl away.
After 28 years,
Finally, she was reunited with Demi.
Interesting souls are never afraid of aging,
Death is nothing more than a reunion with the old man after a long absence.
Long life,
Some people die at the age of 30 and are buried at the age of 80.
The days are monotonous and boring.
Someone is 80 years old and still has light in their eyes.
May you and I be the latter,
The days are bright and happy.
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