Cork French Film Festival 2012
La Pointe-Courte
Agnès Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village.
14:00 Wed 09 March, 2011 @ The Gate Cinema
1956
80mins
35mm
French (English subtitles)
Directed by Agnès Varda
Starring Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort
Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple (played by Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret) and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda’s discursive, gorgeously filmed debut is now considered the film that heralded the French New Wave.