French photographer and film director Agnès Varda eyed to build a place for artists, but looks like it won't be pushing through, as she lists her Provence highlands estate in France for a little more than $3.5 million, Wall Street Journal reports.
The 158-acre estate is located within the confines of Lubéron regional Natural Park. It has 14 bedrooms (which would have housed 14 amazing artists), among four farmhouses. The interior offers a sprawling 10,000 square feet of space.
It was when the French New Wave film director's husband, fellow filmmaker Jacques Demmy, passed away that she acquired the property in the mid-1990s, says Rosalie Varda, the daughter of Ms. Varda.
The 87-year-old filmmaker has been busy renovating the property. The property's different farmhouses as well as its old watermill have been refurbished, and oh, has it been mentioned that there's a river running through the property? Yes, the L'Aigue Brun river , and Ms. Varda has also taken care of it and had it cleaned. A swimming pool has also been built in the property and orchards of olive trees are also making great use of the estate's grounds.
It was not long after the acquisition of the Lubéron estate that Ms. Varda decided to return to her love for filmmaking, shares Rosalie Valda, also in the film industry as a producer and as manager of the rights of her parents' movies and who currently has the estate in her name.
Agnes Varda's filmmaking career is sure one to be in awe of. It was in the late 1950s and early 1960s when Varda became the only girl member of the ambitious group of filmmakers later dubbed the New Wave, with a goal of revolutionizing the world of cinema at that time. Among Varda's other group members are François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer.
Ms. Varda's most notable work and what is considered as her masterpiece is "Cléo from 5 to 7," released in 1962.
Emile Garcin Propriétés represents the estate as the listing agency.