Varda was a fixture for years at the Cannes Film Festival, where she presented more than a dozen films from 1958 to 2018. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)At last year’s Cannes festival, she joined jury president Cate Blanchett for a bilingual speech against sexual misconduct in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Varda was honored last month at the Berlin Film Festival with the Berlinale Camera award for lifetime achievement. Her first movie, “La Pointe Courte,” followed a couple going through a crisis in the small port of Sete on the Mediterranean coast. Varda came to prominence in 1962 with “Cleo de 5 a 7,” a real-time movie about a young woman who finds she may have cancer.

Source: Huffington Post March 29, 2019 12:22 UTC