Agnès Varda claimed to have seen fewer than ten movies before she made her first film at age 25. At the time, she had some pretty naïve ideas about film. “I thought if I added sound to photographs, that would be cinema,” she recalled. She learned the essence of filmmaking and, by all accounts, learned it well. The resulting film, La Pointe-Courte (1954), a self-financed documentary-fiction hybrid, is considered one of the forerunners of the French New Wave.
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