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Wikipedia article'The Beaches of Agns' is a 2008 French documentary film directed by Agns Varda. The film is an autobiographical essay where Varda revisits places from her past, reminisces about life and celebrates her 80th birthday on camera. Varda said it would most likely be her last film, but released the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Faces Places' a decade later. StyleVarda uses a wide variety of techniques, combining still images of people, including her past friends, collaborators, lovers and family, with what Claude Lvi-Strauss might term bricolage of garage-sale items, trinkets, and colorful memorabilia juxtaposed in creative combinations, and combines beautiful images in a collage format which revolves around the theme of beaches. In the opening shots, she has assistants film her bringing mirrors to a beach in Belgium which she used to visit as a young girl; one mirror is on the sand as a wave washes over it. She captures a creative French artistic sensibility with a sincere and playful appreciation for the beauty of film and art and a joie de vivre. Reception'The New York Times' critic Manohla Dargis wrote in 2009:
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