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Cinévardaphoto
  • Release Date: Feb 16, 2005
Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Three short documentaries about photography made by one of France's finest directors.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    88
    A masterful collection of cinematic essays.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    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.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    A work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity, Agnès Varda's Cinévardaphoto is a suite of documentary shorts.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    The unutterably charming Cinévardaphoto brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnès Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lisa Nesselson
    80
    Varda renders the political personal and the personal universal.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    70
    Although Cinevardaphoto is hardly a major work, it does represent the latest (and earlier) chapters in the career of a fascinating filmmaker.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    A welcome introduction to yet another facet of an artist who continues to beguile well into her seventies.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    60
    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.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Russell Scott Smith
    50
    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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