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- ISBN
- 0393866769
- Original Language
- English
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393866769
ISBN-13
9780393866766
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28062954166
Product Key Features
Book Title
Complicated Passion : the Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / Direction & Production
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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This definitive biography of trailblazing French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda tells the engrossing story of a brilliant artist and fierce feminist who made movies and found success on her own terms., A landmark achievement, this deeply engrossing biography of Agnès Varda, the first ever in the English language, fills a major gap in film history, chronicling the life and career of one of world cinema's most gifted writer-directors. Carrie Rickey's brisk, jaunty style lends itself perfectly to her peripatetic and multitalented subject., Finally, the definitive biography of a filmmaker whose place in the cinematic pantheon keeps ascending. Carrie Rickey's writing is vivid and colorful, her judgments judicious and astute, her research impeccable, and she captures Agnès Varda's spirit, her achievement, her uniqueness in the very act of analyzing her.? One could not ask for a smarter or more engaging take on the subject., A landmark achievement, this deeply engrossing biography of Agnès Varda, the first ever in the English language, fills a major gap in film history, chronicling the life and career of one of world cinema's most gifted writer-directors. Carrie Rickey's brisk, jaunty style lends itself perfectly to her peripatetic and multi-talented subject., Supremely entertaining. ... Rickey's fine biography is more than just a catalog of gossip. It's also a proper acknowledgement of cinematic greatness., Agnès Varda possessed an almost superhuman degree of talent and hustle, and as Carrie Rickey vividly shows in A Complicated Passion, she would need it all to make her way in a man's world. Rickey's portrait is an enthralling blend of personal and contextual history, stylistic analysis, penetrating insights into the films, a humming awareness of the electric combination of Varda and her husband, director Jacques Demy--all during the most exciting and innovative period of French cinema. This is biography and film scholarship at their combined best--the irresistible story of an indomitable woman!, Carrie Rickey has delivered a highly readable biography that ought to be an enduring stimulus to show and watch Varda's films., I devoured A Complicated Passion happily and so, I suspect, will you. It sent me rushing to the Criterion Channel to rewatch Varda's movies., Film critic Rickey delivers the definitive biography of French filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)...Rickey captures Varda's tenacity and pluck, serving up a portrait of an artist determined to succeed on her own terms. This is a must for cinephiles., [T]he first major biographical work dedicated to her life and craft. Like Varda herself, A Complicated Passion is short and to the point. Considering that Varda spent practically her whole, long life in a state of creation, Rickey's biography is surprisingly just under 300 pages but still manages to fit in everything a newcomer would want to learn, as well as everything a die-hard fan might not yet know ... With A Complicated Passion, she gives Varda the remembrance she deserves., [A] biography that portrays the artist at once ahead of her time and brimming with uncontainable creative energy. ... Ms. Rickey's book often reads as briskly as a fast-paced thriller. Her captivating portrayal of Varda is enriched by the back stories of the director's friendships with Jane Birkin and Jim Morrison as well as her loving, complex marriage to Jacques Demy ... A Complicated Passion [is] both intellectually satisfying and inspiring., A terrific biography. ... It's one of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director's personal life and their work, as Rickey traces how Varda's relationships and struggles in the film industry informed--and were informed by--the movies she made. ... A Complicated Passion is as inspiring and revelatory as the work of its subject., A richly documented examination of this visionary filmmaker's influential career...[P]roviding colorful anecdotes from friends and luminaries in Varda's orbit...[and] depicting her subject's trailblazing influence and unique cinematic vision embracing creativity, spontaneity, and willingness to tackle provocative issues through an uncompromising body of work., Finally, the definitive biography of a filmmaker whose place in the cinematic pantheon keeps ascending. Carrie Rickey's writing is vivid and colorful, her judgments judicious and astute, her research impeccable, and she captures Agnès Varda's spirit, her achievement, her uniqueness in the very act of analyzing her. One could not ask for a smarter or more engaging take on the subject., Agnès Varda possessed an almost superhuman degree of talent and hustle, and as Carrie Rickey vividly shows in A Complicated Passion, she would need it all to make her way in a man's world. Rickey's portrait is an enthralling blend of personal and contextual history, stylistic analysis, penetrating insights into the films, a humming awareness of the electric combination of Varda and her husband, director Jacques Demy--all during the most exciting and innovative period of French cinema. This is biography and film scholarship at their combined best--the? irresistible story of an indomitable woman!, Varda mania has fully arrived--and stands to continue with this new biography from Carrie Rickey, a former film critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, who shows how the French New Wave filmmaker's life inspired her deceptively light meditations on the passage of time, women's rights, and more., A Complicated Passion manages, with exceptional art and without ever feeling rushed or perfunctory, to compress into a little more than two hundred pages a very long and very productive artistic life. ... Rickey shows how life and work can be so thoroughly intermingled as to be inseparable., Agnès Varda possessed an almost superhuman degree of talent and hustle, and as Carrie Rickey vividly shows in A Complicated Passion, she would need it all to make her way in a man's world. Unlike her New Wave cohorts, Varda found her vocation not through cinephilia (she'd hardly seen any films) but through the other arts, especially photography and literary modernism. Because Rickey is as steeped in the arts as Varda herself, she is able to bring all these exciting strands into play, show how Varda found her footing through trial and error, seeking out the right mentors, learning to negotiate and promote, all in a determination to go her own way with films that are unique combinations of documentary and fiction. From the early glimpses of a little girl at odds with her family and environment (she was a precocious hater of Disney's Snow White) to the professional triumphs in Cannes and Hollywood, Rickey's portrait is an enthralling blend of personal and contextual history, stylistic analysis, penetrating insights into the films, a humming awareness of the electric combination of Varda and her husband, director Jacques Demy--all during the most exciting and innovative period of French cinema. This is biography and film scholarship at their combined best--the irresistible story of an indomitable woman!, [A] compact, complete, and highly enjoyable book ... A Complicated Passion [is] the first--and much-needed--full-length biography of Varda in English.
TitleLeading
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Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
791.430233092
Synopsis
Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards. In this lively biography, former Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey explores the "complicated passions" that informed Varda's charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda's three remarkable careers--as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. She demonstrates how Varda was years ahead of her time in addressing sexism, abortion, labor exploitation, immigrant rights, and race relations with candor and incisiveness. She makes clear Varda's impact on contemporary figures like Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, the Safdie brothers, and Martin Scorsese, who called her one of the Gods of cinema. And she delves into Varda's incredibly rich social life with figures such as Harrison Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Morrison, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol, and her nearly forty-year marriage to the celebrated director Jacques Demy. A Complicated Passion is the vibrant biography that Varda, regarded by many as the greatest female filmmaker of all time, has long deserved., A Time Must-Read Book of 2024 The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as "one of the Gods of cinema."
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.V368R5 2024
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