Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist with French and Greek origins.
Varda in 1962
Commemorative poster for Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961)
Varda at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2010
Varda at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019
La Pointe Courte is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. It has been cited by many critics as a forerunner of the French New Wave, with the historian Georges Sadoul calling it "truly the first film of the nouvelle vague". The film takes place in Sète in the south of France. The Pointe Courte is a tiny quarter of the town known as the fisherman's village.
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