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La Pointe Courte

Original title: La Pointe-Courte
  • 19551955
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 20m
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7.1/10
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Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret in La Pointe Courte (1955)
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Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.
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28,053
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    • Director
      • Agnès Varda
    • Writer
      • Agnès Varda
    • Stars
      • Philippe Noiret
      • Silvia Monfort
      • Marcel Jouet
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    • Director
      • Agnès Varda
    • Writer
      • Agnès Varda
    • Stars
      • Philippe Noiret
      • Silvia Monfort
      • Marcel Jouet
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    • 15User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews

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    Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret in La Pointe Courte (1955)
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    Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret
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    Silvia Monfort
    Silvia Monfort
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    Marcel Jouet
    Marcel Jouet
    • Raphäel Scotto
    Albert Lubrano
    • Albert Soldino
    Anna Banegas
    • Anna Soldino
    André Lubrano
    • Dédé Soldino
    Rossette Lubrano
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      • Agnès Varda
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      • Agnès Varda
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    • Trivia
      This film is considered by many critics as the starting point of the French New Wave film movement.
    • Goofs
      The entire movie has been shot without sound and dubbed later, and it shows. At several points in the movie, the dialogue does not match the lip movements at all. For instance, early in the movie, when Jules' wife tells the other woman that it was Jules who scared the inspectors.
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    Varda's first film launches the French New Wave
    La Pointe Courte is a small jut of land on the east side of Le Canal de Sète, which connects L'Étang de Thau to the Mediterranean Sea. In the mid-1950s, it harbored a small fishing village (perhaps it still does, for all I know) which provides the setting for this film. Written and directed by 26-year old Agnès (née Arlette) Varda, this, her first and perhaps her best film, is credited by some film critics and historians as the first in the French New Wave.

    A young (24) Philippe Noiret plays a native of the village who returns from Paris after many years for a short vacation. Heretofore, I was familiar with Noiret only with some of his much later films. Silvia Monfort, with whom I was previously unfamiliar, and who had one of the most unusual faces I've seen on film, plays the disillusioned Parisian wife who joins him five days later to discuss their marriage.

    What's interesting about this film are its two intertwining parts. One part, shot in a familiar narrative style, concerns the everyday life and concerns of the villagers. The other part depicts the conversations of the couple in an artistic style full of fascinating images and interesting camera angles, a style which takes full advantage of Varda's photographer's eye. (Varda used three different cinematographers on this shoot, but I don't know which of them photographed which scenes.)

    Varda chose the location for the film after a visit there for an assignment as a still photographer. What I liked best about the part involving just the couple were the slow pans of the environments, almost as if Varda were trying to capture the characters' surroundings in a series of stills. On the other hand, I found somewhat disturbing the obtrusive soundtrack of a clarinet, which went counter to the notion that a soundtrack is supposed to enhance the mood of the scene, not play against it as I found this to do. Perhaps that is part of what accounts for this being credited as a New Wave film.
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    • Release date
      • January 4, 1956 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La Pointe-Courte
    • Filming locations
      • Sète, Hérault, France
    • Production company
      • Ciné-tamaris
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,596
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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