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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThree short documentaries about photography made by one of France's finest directors.
- 88New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA masterful collection of cinematic essays.
- 80VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonVarda renders the political personal and the personal universal.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity, Agnès Varda's Cinévardaphoto is a suite of documentary shorts.
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe unutterably charming Cinévardaphoto brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnès Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirVarda's photography is a pure joy, but rereleasing this film four decades later, absent any commentary on the ironic distance between then and now, is a typically challenging gesture.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWhat lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
- 60The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurraySomeone as attuned as Varda to the quality of an image should know that a flat, disposable medium like video makes images harder to internalize.
- 50New York PostNew York PostSitting through three totally unrelated documentaries in a row -- with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic) silences? That's a migraine waiting to happen.