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 The Beaches of Agnes (Les Plages d\'Agnes) Synopsis Produced and directed by French Left Bank giant Agn�s Varda as a summation of her long and enduring career, Agn�s\' Beaches constitutes a free-floating essay film. It is comprised of various elements that collectively pay homage to Varda\'s past -- including clips from the director\'s features, dramatically reconstructed moments from Varda\'s life, and elaborate, almost baroque monuments created onscreen to symbolize specific ideas and concepts -- such as an opening scene with a number of individuals setting up mirrors of various shapes and sizes on a great beach, and an enclosure lined, from wall to wall and floor to ceiling, with film strips from Varda\'s only cinematic flop, the 1969 feature Les Creatures. Varda uses beaches throughout the narrative as a recurring structural motif to convey her progress from one stage of life to another, while the freedom of form on display here recalls a similar approach on display in earlier Varda works such as the 1991 Jacquot de Nantes. - Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Movie Info Starring: Agn�s Varda, Blaise Fournier, Andr�e Vilar, Stephane Vilar, Christophe Vilar Theatrical Release Date: 07/01/2009 Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 100 min. Distributor(s): Cinema Guild Production Co.: Arte France Cin�ma, Cin� Tamaris Director(s): Agn�s Varda Genre(s): Documentary Tone: Intimate, Literate, Lyrical Country of Origin: France (12-17-2008),USA - Limited (07-01-2009) Language: French Status: In Theaters