Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about everybody's favorite, adorkeable

directorial figure, Agnes Varda. Well, you know, she's somebody who became a real brand in her later years, somebody who was

always charming and delightful and, you know, a very tiny person who spread joy and happiness

wherever she went, putting up murals on walls of people with her funny street art companion,

J.R.

Yeah, she was somebody that when you talk about a woman filmmaker, it's like, oh yeah,

Agnes Varda, I love her movies.

It's almost like a pre-packaged thing, right?

There was nothing in her later years threatening when people talked about her,

which is not necessarily the case about her earlier films

because she was always a figure that followed her own passions and made films that were never

aiming to be commercial in the way that some of the other French filmmakers around the time

that she started did. First of all, I should say that this is one of those filmmakers we sometimes

do who has a very big and passionate following and whose work I have only started did. First of all, I should say that this is one of those filmmakers we sometimes do,

who has a very big and passionate following and whose work I have only a casual acquaintanceship with.

So please take my opinions, and maybe Justin's opinions, too, as a work in progress. There's a lot

there I still want to explore. So we basically say that any time we have a woman filmmaker that we tackle. Yeah, what does that say about us? Nothing good, does it? Nope, nothing good. Here's my thing with Agnes Varda. Obviously, undeniably a force for good in the world. When I saw Faces Places, which was a very celebrated movie a few years ago. Everyone found it very wonderful.

I honestly found it a bit annoying.

Why is that, Will?

It sounds like saying that you find puppies annoying or chocolate annoying.

It's such an obviously charming and, you know, Tweed movie about this intergenerational friendship and about spreading joy across the land by, you know,

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