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Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte on Criterion | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine
Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte on Criterion by Andrew Chan
Essay by Professor of Film Studies Ginette Vincendeau
La Pointe Courte: How Agnès Varda “Invented” the New Wave
In September 1997, I saw Agnès Varda introduce a brand-new 35 mm print of her first feature film, La Pointe Courte (made in 1954), to an admiring audience at Yale University. More astonishing than the luminous black-and-white images was Varda’s . . .
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