Agnès Varda died last week and the RIPs cascaded with a sense of personal loss. She began making films in 1954, with La Pointe Courte, an intimate and highly textured film about a couple going back to the man's fishing village home. Although a pioneering figure of the defining Nouvelle Vague movement, she was never emblematic of it in the way of filmmakers like Godard, Truffaut and Resnais, even if admired by all of them.

Her legacy was subsequently reframed, and she began to be called the 'grandmother of the Nouvelle Vague'. The title was supremely #BoreMatKarYaar because it seemed to bleach out the easy libidinality and crackling contemporaneity of her work.