4 By Agnes Varda: The Criterion Collection (2008) Rating: Starring: Director: Agnes Varda Category: Drama, Foreign Studio: Criterion Subtitles: Length: 345 mins     Agnes Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past fifty years. She is widely believed to have presaged the French new wave with her first film, La Pointe Courte, long before creating one of the movement's benchmarks, Cleo From 5 To 7. Later, with Le Bonheur and Vagabond, Varda further shook up art-house audiences, challenging bourgeois codes with her inscrutable characters and effortlessly beautiful compositions and editing. Now working largely as a documentarian, Varda remains one of the essential cinematic poets of our time and a true visionary. Includes: La Point Courte (1954) 80 min. Cleo From 5 To 7 (1961) 89 min. Le Bonheur (1964) 80 min. Vagabond (1985) 105 min.