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Lili Owen Rowlands, 4 June 2026

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda 
by Carrie Rickey.
Norton, 288 pp., £13.99, September 2025, 978 1 324 11045 3
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... Varda dressed as a potato, Varda doing jazz hands on the red carpet. In A Complicated Passion, Carrie Rickey coins the term ‘Vardolatry’ to describe the almost worshipful regard for her talent. Though recognition arrived belatedly, Varda was that rare thing: an unforgotten feminist filmmaker.There have been several recent exhibitions and art books ...

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