Although the film gives some interesting black and white shots of a scruffy French fishing village it is boring. The village is shabby, full of scruffy people and their scruffy, and sometimes dead, cats. The two protagonists, a husband an wife, visiting from Paris, are dull and converse in a stilted manner in which I am not accustomed. A semi-documentary this may appeal to art movie buffs.
shareI agree. Interesting project, but tedious. Sleepy time!
sharePerhaps the problem is not the film, but your rejection of things of which you are not accustomed to.
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This is the film that's been credited for igniting the French "New Wave" in film. Before "400 Blows," "Breathless" and "Hiroshima Mon Amour" there was Agnes Varda's "La Pointe Courte." In the Criterion Collection she explains how at 25 she wrote, directed and produced a film midway between the Italian neorealism of the late-40s to the French New Wave of the late 50s. She juxtaposes two stories, one of a 4-year marriage on the point of disintegration and the other of the more natural Mediterranean world of a seaside village. Beautifully filmed this fascinating film reminded me of later Ingmar Bergman in its look and subject matter. Highly recommended to any film student.
shareGood post, ozzieink. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, it's such a beautiful film. The film feels both young and mature and it's influence was profound.
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The village and it's people are quite interesting, but the married couple and their conversations tested my patience at times. Two very different story lines. I think Varda might have been trying to draw a contrast between the highfalutin musings of the Parisian couple and the more down-to-earth drama and people of the fishing village.
shareI have to agree. I found this fairly slow and dull for much of it. It dragged on and felt far longer than it was. My rating is a 5/10.
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