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French New Wave film director Agnes Varda dead at 90: family
PARIS, March 29, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – French film director Agnes Varda, who
emerged in the New Wave of intimate cinema of the 1960s and continued with
artful documentaries and films mixing real-life events with fiction, has died
aged 90, her family said on Friday.
“The director and artist Agnes Varda died at her home on the night of
Thursday, March 29, of complications from cancer. She was surrounded by her
family and friends,” the family said in a statement.
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