Cannes Festival Pays Homage to Agnès Varda

VARDA FOREVER: If you look closely, you can just about make out her signature bowl haircut. For its 72nd edition, running from May 14 to 25, Cannes Film Festival has chosen to pay homage to French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died on March 29, making her the first female director to be immortalized on a Cannes Film Festival poster. The photo chosen for the poster, taken in August 1954 as Varda was directing her first film “La Pointe Courte” at just 26 years old, depicts the filmmaker crouching on a collaborator’s back to get the perfect shot. “You can feel the strength of her engagement: she would do everything to create, everything to overcome hurdles,” said festival president Pierre Lescure, speaking at the presentation of the Official Selection lineup for the 2019 edition of the festival, held on Thursday at the UGC Normandie cinema on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. There are four female directors in this year’s lineup out of the 19 competing for the Palme d’Or, one more than the 2018 selection. Among these are French-Senegalese director Mati Diop presenting her debut “Atlantiques,” set in a suburb of Dakar, and Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe.” Two French directors complete the female

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