La Pointe Courte

La Pointe Courte is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agns Varda. The film was Vardas debut, and has been cited by many critics as a forerunner of the French New Wave.

Varda originally went to La Pointe Courte to take pictures for a friend who could no longer visit her home. After seeing the footage she took there, she rented a camera to shoot a film about a couple who lived in La Pointe Courte. Varda set up her own coop and began production. The budget for the film was low budget costing 14,000 roughly one fourth the budget of other feature films of the era including The 400 Blows and Breathless. No members of the cast or crew were paid during the production.In a 1962 interview, Varda spoke of two present themes in the film with the first being a couple reconsidering their relationship and a village that is trying to resolve several collective problems of survival. ........

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