PARALLEL LIVES

PARALLEL LIVES (LA POINTE COURTE), 1954
France | DCP, Black & White, 80' | French, English
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort

Agnès Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte , which she directed at the age of 26, is considered as one of the leading films of French New Wave cinema. Portraying the events taking place at La Pointe Courte, a fishermen’s village, the film focuses on two different stories. Stylistically resembling a documentary, the first story addresses daily life and the ordinary problems that arise in a fishermen’s village, while the other story portrays a young couple talking about their relationship and life, with a seriousness that contrasts the simplicity of village life and an exceptional visual style that carries traces of the director’s past as a photographer.