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OF THE MANY visionaries to emerge from French cinema in the late 50s, only one woman reached legendary status. To clarify, Agnes Varda’s career pre-dates the Nouvelle Vague movement, though she was also one of its pioneers. Her work — often famed for blurring the line between documentary and fiction — long held space in a male-dominated industry, inspiring and invigorating generations until her death at 90 in 2019. Scorsese called her, simply, “one of the gods”. After an early career in photography, Varda made her first film La Pointe Courte — a convention-bending study of marriage in an impoverished fishing village — in 1955. …