La Pointe Courte
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| Directed by | Agnès Varda |
| Written by | Agnès Varda |
| Starring | Silvia Monfort Philippe Noiret |
| Music by | Pierre Barbaud |
| Cinematography | Paul Soulignac Louis Stein |
| Editing by | Alain Resnais |
| Release date(s) | 1955 |
| Running time | 86 min |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $14,000 |
La Pointe Courte is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. The film was Varda's debut film.
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[edit] Plot
A young man (Philippe Noiret) arrives at a train station to see his wife. After four years of marriage the couple finds difficulty in their marriage as the husband has left there without her. The couple discuss their lives without settling on their current romantic situation. The man takes his wife back to a train without any clear statement on the couple's relationship. Meanwhile, A government official arrives to see if local fishermen in the village are fishing without permits. In the village a child has died and a fisherman is jailed for fishing without a license while a young man has arranged a marriage between him and his sixteen year old girlfriend.
[edit] Production
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 she rented a camera to shoot a film about a couple who lived in La Pointe Courte. Varda set up her own co-op 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.[1]
[edit] Themes
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".[2]
[edit] Release
The Paris premiere of the film was in 1956 at the Studio Parnasse. It played with Jean Vigo's documentary film À propos de Nice (1930).[2]
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Neupert, Richard John (2007). A history of the French new wave cinema. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299217043. http://books.google.ca/books?id=feDyNCFtJloC. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
[edit] External links
- La Pointe Courte at AllRovi
- La Pointe Courte at the Internet Movie Database
- La Pointe Courte at the TCM Movie Database
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