La Pointe Courte

La Pointe Courte
La Pointe Courte
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Directed by	Agnès Varda
Written by	Agnès Varda
Starring	Silvia Monfort; Philippe Noiret
Cinematography	Paul Soulignac; Louis Soulanes
Edited by	Alain Resnais; Henri Colpi
Music by	Pierre Barbaud
Release date	May 1955;
Running time	86 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$14,000

La Pointe Courte [la pwɛ̃t kuʁt] is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda (in her feature film directorial debut). It has been cited by many critics as a forerunner of the French New Wave,^[1] with the historian Georges Sadoul calling it "truly the first film of the nouvelle vague".^[2] The film takes place in Sète in the south of France. The Pointe Courte ("short point") is a tiny quarter of the town known as the fisherman's village.

^ Kirshner, J. (2021). An Artist in Her Own Right: The Cinema of Agnès Varda. CINEASTE, 46(3), 4-9.
^ Vincendeau, Ginette. "La Pointe Courte: How Agnès Varda "Invented" the New Wave". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[kirshner-1] Kirshner, J. (2021). An Artist in Her Own Right: The Cinema of Agnès Varda. CINEASTE, 46(3), 4-9.

[2] Vincendeau, Ginette. "La Pointe Courte: How Agnès Varda "Invented" the New Wave". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

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