La pointe courte (Agnès Varda, 1955)

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La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda, 1955)

To know someone by heart is a different kind of knowing, the unseen, the unspoken. Everything fades and the only thing that is glowing is the tiny bit of light that strikes outwards from the heart and clears every thought and every possibility that will contradict the truth that only the heart knows.

- allisineffable

I took the parallels too far but oh well today is a historic day! <3

Films in frame - The Handmaiden's tale (2017), Portrait of a lady on fire (2019), La pointe courte (1955), Decision to leave (2022), Persona (1996)

"La Pointe Courte" d'Agnès Varda (1955), février 2024.

Agnès Varda filming La Pointe Courte (1955)

6, 20, 25

6. A film released before 1970

The Ancient Law, a film from 1923 that I hadn't heard about until last year when the AFI Silver gave me a complimentary ticket to a screening. The film follows Baruch, a young Orthodox Jewish man who leaves his shtetl (against his rabbi father's wishes) to pursue a career in theatre. It has some very powerful depictions of antisemitism and the importance of Judaism in Baruch's life. One moment that has really stuck with me is Baruch cutting off his sidelocks for fear that being publicly recognized as Jewish will kill his career. I'm glad the AFI Silver introduced me to it.

20. A film where the vibes are immaculate

La Pointe Courte, a film from 1955 directed by Agnès Varda. While the film has multiple plot points, none of them are particularly high-stakes. We just hang out with the residents of a small fishing village for a while. It's a nice little slice of life film.

25. A film that is roughly 90 minutes long

Paths of Glory, which clocks in at roughly 88 minutes. It is easily my favorite Stanley Kubrick film and one of the best antiwar films I've ever seen. It's critical of both war and the military as an institution. I really can't recommend it enough.

la pointe courte (1955) dir. agnès varda

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"Do you recognize me?"

La Pointe Courte, Agnès Varda, 1955

La pointe courte (Agnès Varda, 1955) 

"La Pointe Courte" (1955) Dir. Agnès Varda.

Antoine Bourseiller and Corinne Marchand in Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand, José Luis de Vilallonga, Loye Payen, Lucienne Marchand, Serge Korber. Screenplay: Agnès Varda. Cinematography: Paul Bonis, Alain Levent, Jean Rabier. Production design: Jean-François Adam. Film editing: Pascale Laverrière, Janine Verneau. Music: Michel Legrand. Has any director ever so successfully combined the keen editorial eye of the documentary filmmaker with the storytelling gifts of the creator of fictional films as Agnès Varda? From the beginning, with the vivid setting of the small Mediterranean fishing community of La Pointe Courte (1955) serving as background and correlative for the troubles of a married couple, Varda has known how to reverse Marianne Moore's formula of "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" and tell stories about imaginary people in real places. The real place in Cléo From 5 to 7 is the city of Paris, where Varda continually finds ways to enhance her slice-of-life story of pop-singer Cléo, waiting out the results of a medical test that she is sure will doom her to death from cancer. When her protagonist leaves the sanctuary of her apartment and wanders the streets of the city, Varda continually finds little bits of memento mori to insert into the frame, such as the Pompes Funèbres sign on a mortician's place of business that we glimpse from the windows of the bus in which Cléo is riding. It's not done with a heavy hand, but rather with a slyly macabre irony, for Cléo is as much a target of Varda's wry humor as she is an object of concern. We glimpse her vanity and frivolity and superstition while we also feel sympathy with her anxiety and fear of death.

La pointe courte (1955)

La Pointe Courte (1955) dir. Agnès Varda