La Pointe courte
Agnès Varda
A couple about to separate discuss their life together in places that the wife is discovering for the first time, places the man was brought up in, in a small village near Sète called La Pointe Courte. The couple are surrounded by shellfish fishermen who are organising themselves to defend their rights. It is a twofold chronicle – a couple and a group, in the dazzling light of summer.
With : Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Louis Soulanes, Paul Soulignac, Louis Stein
Sound : Georges Mardiguian
Editing : Alain Resnais
Music : Pierre Barbaud
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Louis Soulanes, Paul Soulignac, Louis Stein
Sound : Georges Mardiguian
Editing : Alain Resnais
Music : Pierre Barbaud
Production : Ciné Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
In 1956, Agnès Varda was the official photographer for Jean Vilar's TNP. Although she had had no formal training, she made this film which turned the traditional rules of writing upside down and anticipated the New Wave. La Pointe Courte already contains everything of Varda. On the one hand, she is a director interested in the life of the inhabitants of the fishing village in an almost documentary way. She gets them to re-enact situations she has been told. They create the story together. On the other, she constructs a narrative closer to traditional fiction. What interests Varda is the juxtaposition of these two ways of approaching the world (intimately and socially) that we all have within us.