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    The Department of

    French and Francophone


    Studies
    Film Series
    Co-sponsors: The Women's Studies Program

    LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS


    (The Beaches of Agnes)
    By
    Agnès Varda
    (2008)

    Thursday, November 19,


    2009
    113 Carnegie Building at 6:30 &
    9:00 p.m.
    On the eve of her 80th
    birthday, Agnès Varda, often
    referred to as “the “If you have not seen a single film by Agnès Varda,
    it is best if you start with "The Beaches of Agnes."
    godmother of the French You don't need to know anything about her work.
    She has a way of never explaining very much, and
    New
    1990 - Wave”, information decidedthat Varda to makes yet somehow public
    making ithere fordoesthe
    all clear. She this byfirst
    not treating her life as a lesson in biography, but as
    make
    This film
    time. the is 110
    Raising autobiographical
    mn
    twoand will be preceeded
    children and themaking by a
    treasured brief
    memoriessome ofintroduction.
    of France’s
    friends.”

    The
    greatest Beaches
    movies
    The series is sponsored
    of
    by the Collegefrom
    Agnes,
    the
    of the Liberal Arts, the1960s, Varda
    College of Education, and
    the Department Demy
    of Film, the Jewishtraveled
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
    Studies
    guiding
    the
    Program, the Women’s
    University Park.
    us Studies through
    world but appeared to have been most at home etin
    Program, the Center for her
    Language Acquisition, and the Alliance Française de State College de the

    extraordinary
    “septième art”.
    This publication is available 55-year
    in Or, as
    alternative career
    mediaVarda
    on request. puts
    Penn State is it: “Cinema
    committed to affirmative -action,
    I feel like I’ve
    equal opportunity,
    and the diversity of its workforce. Penn State encourages qualified persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and
    always
    activities. If you lived in anyit.”
    anticipate needing Varda orexplains
    type of accommodation have questions about how aaccess
    the physical relatively
    provided, please shy,
    consult the French and Francophone Studies Department at 865-1492 in advance of your participation or visit. U.Ed. LBA 10-48.
    awkward young woman from Brussels first taught herself to
    be a photographer and then a filmmaker. Richly illustrating

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