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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 1956\u00a0 \u2013 90\u2032 \u2013 Romantic Comedy, Classic, Women Directors. A young man (Philippe Noiret) who is a native of the seaside village of La Pointe Courte, France is having a hard time understanding why his bored, Paris-born wife (Sylvia Montfort) of four years is unhappy with their marriage. The couple visit La Pointe Courte as they try to resolve their problems. Meanwhile, the locals of the rural community grapple with the hardships and tragedies of their daily lives: A young child dies, a government official hassles fishermen and a marriage is arranged.\u00a0\u00a0The great Agnes Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda’s discursive…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n LA POINTE COURTE | 1956\u00a0 \u2013 90\u2032 \u2013 Romantic Comedy, Classic, Women Directors. Written by: Agn\u00e8s Varda. Directed by:\u00a0Agn\u00e8s\u00a0Varda. Starring:\u00a0Philippe Noiret,\u00a0Silvia Monfort,\u00a0Marcel Jouet, Albert Lubrano. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2008. In French with English subtitles. A HBO Max release. | A young man (Philippe Noiret) who is a native of the seaside village […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-comedy-romance","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22642,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions\/22642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Agn\u00e8s Varda.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Agn\u00e8s\u00a0Varda.
\nStarring:\u00a0Philippe Noiret,\u00a0Silvia Monfort,\u00a0Marcel Jouet, Albert Lubrano.
\nOfficial Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2008.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA HBO Max release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"