Meeting Agnes

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For a long time, I did not know who Agnes Varda was. Even when my love for cinema began to branch out beyond the recent movies coming out and whatever limited selection I could find at my local video store, her name was still not on my radar. As I learned about Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, and Vittorio De Sica, I still had not heard of Ms. Varda. Shockingly enough, I never even discovered her in college, while dipping my toes into French New Wave, the movement…