La Pointe Courte
1955 1 hr 20 min
Film Critic Carrie Rickey will join us in the theater to celebrate the release of her new biography A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda. She will be signing copies of her new book in our lobby from 7:00 - 7:30 pm. Carrie will then introduce this landmark first feature in feminist cinema and host a post-film Q&A about the movie and Varda’s larger work. Our friends from Labyrinth Books will be on hand that night at the theater selling copies of the book.
Agnès Varda’s debut feature film, LA POINTE COURTE, is a sharp study of a marriage on the rocks. Philippe Noiret and Silvia Monfort play a couple who visit a small fishing village to work on their deteriorating relationship. Filmed in a documentary-like style, Varda’s film is a forerunner of the French New Wave. In French w/ subtitles.
Guest Speaker
Carrie Rickey is a film critic emerita of The Philadelphia Inquirer. She wrote about art for Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic and about film for The Village Voice, Film Comment, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Drexel University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She won a regional Emmy for producing Before Hollywood: Philadelphia and the Birth of the Movies, and an LA Press Club award for a series on female filmmakers. In August 2024, Norton published Rickey's biography, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.
Credits
Director Agnès Varda
Cast Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort
Country France
Language French (with subtitles)
Aspect 1.33
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