Les Plages d'Agnes

2008, Agnes Varda's cine-autobiography; Varda delivers an interesting, slightly jumpy run through, of a quite remarkable life.
Varda again adopts for a brisk pace, flying around all manner of matters. Some of these are obviously more interesting than others (cineastes want one thing, those not au fait with Varda's work maybe something else) but the piece does manange to hold together well. Their is a refreshing impression of honesty about how time is jumped across, and how Varda admits she can't discuss the past out of context of the present.
The discussion of specific films and so on throws up a number of features of interest. The reenactements, and deliberate set-ups on the beach, are partly their to deconstruct the classic 'life story' film by showing the fundamental strangness of the set-up; cinema trying to make the past eternal by reenacting it in the present.