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In this delightful memoir, award-winning French filmmaker Agnes Varda employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy. 81-year-old Varda uses film clips, old photos and gorgeous reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy and the making of her movies.
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