This stunningly personal documentary, which also serves as her last film, allows the audience to spend two hours in her company, wonderfully exploring the creative realms of her mind in the process.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Varda shares with us her reflections, her conception of art and even the structure itself of each of her works with honesty about the creative process. Through his works she expresses like the difficulty of illustrating time and the idea of happiness

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 27, 2024

Playing almost like a self-eulogy, Varda by Agnès resonates as both a manifesto to untamed creativity and a testament to future generations of artists.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2023

Varda’s enthusiasm for making is simply infectious.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2023

Varda by Agns serves as uniquely satisfying tutorial, not just on how to understand her art, but on how to live creatively.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Feb 28, 2022

Varda by Agnès is a fitting send-off for the director, since it follows her signature technique of tingeing playful exuberance with sadness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Rather than reiterating the past, the films and talks revisited afresh [in Varda by Agnès] now whisper the word 'eternity.'

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

It is a final memo to us - a bittersweet note that is full of playful nostalgia, tender emotions, and wise advice for aspiring filmmakers and cinephiles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2020

It has interesting moments, but long stretches play like a TED talk Varda did which covers much of the same ground. While she is a wonderful filmmaker - which bits of this film get across - I think you'd be better watching one of Varda's many other films.

Full Review | May 22, 2020

Varda by Agnes doesn't just make you wish that it was longer, but that it was possible to see every single image Agnes Varda ever put to film.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2020

"Varda by Agnès" provides an essential look inside the creative mind. It's not often that filmmakers reveal themselves so openly while looking back over their careers, and it's a treat when they do.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 20, 2020

The film is more a lesson on craft and doing things your own way than anything, and Varda gets fascinatingly specific.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2020

Her final movie can be taken as an act of generosity. She had things to tell us.

Full Review | Jan 16, 2020

If all my professors were as knowledgeable, as caring, and as fun as Agnès Varda, I wouldn't have skipped class so often.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2020

Her official final work, a straightforward and yet endlessly fascinating look at her career.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 11, 2020

At times it feels like a TED Talk or a college class which you find interesting but also kind of want to end. But mostly, it just makes you want to go back to Varda's catalog and start from the beginning.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2020

Like the woman herself, Varda par Agnès is practically irresistible.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2020

A well-earned victory lap.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2020

If you're already a fan, you'll have guaranteed good time; if not, this might impel you to start digging Varda's world.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2019

Agnès Varda accomplished quite a lot in her years behind (and in front of) the camera, a woman of vision who always managed to see something new, interesting and valuable in everything and everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2019