Details

Release year: 1955

Storyline

Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.

Top credits

Directors

Agnès Varda

Writers

Agnès Varda

Cast

Philippe Noiret — Lui
Silvia Monfort — Elle
Marcel Jouet — Raphäel Scotto
Albert Lubrano — Albert Soldino

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Did you know

• Director Agnès Varda made the film debut for roughly $14,000. All of the money went towards renting equipment and buying and processing film stock; none of the actors or crew members were paid.

• This film is considered by many critics as the starting point of the French New Wave film movement.

• The director said she was inspired to create a film based on two different stories alternating with each other, from reading an American novel with a similar structure, Wild Palms by William Faulkner.