La Pointe Courte (1955)

Original title

La Pointe courte

Directed by

Agnès Varda

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 124 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple from Paris visits a small fishing village in southern France and confronts tensions in their relationship. Their personal drama plays out against the daily lives and struggles of the local fishermen.

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What happens

La Pointe Courte [la pwɛ̃t kuʁt] is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda (in her directorial debut). It has been cited by many critics as a forerunner of the French New Wave, with the historian Georges Sadoul calling it "truly the first film of the nouvelle vague". The film was shot and takes place in Sète in the south of France, "La Pointe Courte" ("short point") being a tiny quarter of the town, known as the fisherman's village. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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