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Agnès Varda’s Vagabond – a film that leaves no trace

Agnès Varda's Vagabond: A film that leaves no trace

If Agnès Varda’s 1985 movie Vagabond is like any other movie, then it would be Citizen Kane. When you’ve seen both, you see that Varda almost certainly used the structure of Orson Welles’ 1941 movie as a blueprint for her own. Both start with a death, both are an investigation into a life, both end inconclusively.

By Richard Skinner.