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Cinevardaphoto
Cine Tamaris

Cinevardaphoto reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 76 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

A collection of three short cineessays by Agnes Varda: Ydessa, The Bears, and etc. (2004), Ulysses (1982) and Salut les Cubains (1963). A photographer before she turned to film, Varda explores the medium's ability to preserve a moment for eternity, while remaining open to an array of interpretations that evolve over time. (Film Forum)


GENRE(S): Documentary  
WRITTEN BY: Agnès Varda  
DIRECTED BY: Agnès Varda  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: February 16, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, B/W / Color 
ORIGIN: France 
LANGUAGE(S): English / French (with English subtitles) 

What The Critics Said

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100
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Three short documentaries about photography made by one of France's finest directors.
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88
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A masterful collection of cinematic essays.
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80
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Varda's photography is a pure joy, but rereleasing this film four decades later, absent any commentary on the ironic distance between then and now, is a typically challenging gesture.
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80
Variety Lisa Nesselson
Varda renders the political personal and the personal universal.
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80
Village Voice J. Hoberman
A work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity, Agnès Varda's Cinévardaphoto is a suite of documentary shorts.
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80
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The unutterably charming Cinévardaphoto brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnès Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Although Cinevardaphoto is hardly a major work, it does represent the latest (and earlier) chapters in the career of a fascinating filmmaker.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
A welcome introduction to yet another facet of an artist who continues to beguile well into her seventies.
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60
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Someone as attuned as Varda to the quality of an image should know that a flat, disposable medium like video makes images harder to internalize.
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50
New York Post Russell Scott Smith
Sitting through three totally unrelated documentaries in a row -- with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic) silences? That's a migraine waiting to happen.
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