Varda is seventy-two and made her first film when she was twenty-six. She was the only woman director involved in the French New Wave, and has remained truer to its spirit than many of the others. Her features include such masterpieces as One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, Vagabond, and Kung Fu Master (which is not about kung fu but about love). Along the way she has made many documentaries, including Uncle Yanco (1968), about her uncle who lived on a houseboat in California and was a gleaner of sorts, and Daguerreotypes (1975), about the other people who live on her street. Her A Hundred and One
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