Agnès Varda’s final film has a release date. Janus Films will release “Varda by Agnès” November 22 in New York at Film Forum and Film at Lincoln Center with a national rollout to follow, a press release announced. A touring retrospective of the late filmmaker’s work will launch December 20 at the latter venue.

“Varda by Agnès” made its world premiere at the 2019 Berlinale. The doc sees the revered French New Wave pioneer acting as our “spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging,” according to its synopsis. “Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved — Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes — this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.”

“In 1994, with a retro at the French Cinémathèque, I published a book entitled ‘Varda by Agnès.’ Twenty-five years later, the same title is given to my film made of moving images and words, with the same project: give keys about my body of work,” Varda said of the film. “I give my own keys, my thoughts, nothing pretentious, just keys.”

Varda’s best known for titles such as “Cleo from 5 to 7,” “The Beaches of Agnes,” and “The Gleaners and I,” all of which will be included in Janus Films’ retrospective.

“Agnès Varda’s final film is a canny valedictory by one of the greatest filmmakers ever to wield a camera,” said Peter Becker, a partner in Janus Films. “Her tremendous creativity, determination, and empathy only increased over the seven decades she spent making cinema, and with ‘Varda by Agnès,’ she turns the lens on herself, taking us on her own cinematic journey. It is a quintessential Varda film that not only gives us new ways of looking at her life and work, but new ways of looking at the world,” he emphasized.

Varda died in March of this year.

The retrospective’s national venues have yet to be announced. Titles set to be screened are listed below.

AGNES DE CI DE LA VARDA (2010)
THE BEACHES OF AGNES (2008)
LE BONHEUR (1964)
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1961)
DAGUERREOTYPES (1975)
DOCUMENTEUR (1981)
THE GLEANERS AND I (2000)
THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER (2002)
JACQUOT DE NANTES (1990)
LA POINTE COURTE (1954)
LION’S LOVE (…AND LIES) (1969)
MUR MURS (1980)
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS (1994)
ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (1976)
VAGABOND (1985)
WORLD OF JACQUES DEMY (1993)
YOUNG GIRLS TURN 25 (1992)

Short Films
ALONG THE COAST (DU COTE DE LA COTE) (1958)
BLACK PANTHERS (1968)
ELSA LA ROSE (1965)
FIANCES DU PONT MACDONALD (1961)
LION VANISHING (2003)
L’OPERA MOUFFE (1994)
PLEASURE OF LOVE IN IRAN (1976)
SALUT LES CUBAINS (1963)
SO-CALLED CARYATIDS (1984)
ULYSSE (1982) UNCLE YANCO (1967)
WOMEN REPLY (1975)
YOU’VE GOT BEAUTIFUL STAIRS, YOU KNOW (1986)
7P., CUIS., S, DE B… (1984)