ABSTRACT
Agnès Varda’s filmic production has been little heralded by feminist critics, least of all by those in the United States and the United Kingdom where her work has been dismissed by such critics as the late Claire Johnston as reactionary and certainly not feminist. 1 Curiously, Varda’s work is often passed over in silence in anthologies on women’s film – and yet she herself claims to be an avowed feminist. The debate here, however, is not going to centre on the global issue of a feminist cinema but rather will endeavour to demonstrate how Varda’s 1985 film Sans toit ni loi is as much political as it is – and because it is – feminist in its conception and message.
