One of the seminal filmmakers of the French New Wave, Varda stood with Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Alain Resnais
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
There is a street in the Pointe Courte neighborhood of Sète, a seaside village in Southern France, that is named for Agnès Varda, the French filmmaker who lived there in the '40s with her mother, brothers and sisters in a sailboat anchored to the quay while her father was off at war.
It looks like an ordinary street, and in truth it is. And yet it isn't.
In her first film, 1954's "La Pointe-Courte," it was a path for a pair of lovers, beautiful in their self-absorption, as well as the fishermen, bakers, tailors and the rest who make up a working village. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (5435 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 3 luglio 2009