La Pointe Courte
Through the happy crowds dancing in the street, the Parisian couple walk to the railway station, having decided to continue their life together.In a 1962 interview, Varda spoke of two present themes in the film with "the first being a couple reconsidering their relationship and a village that is trying to resolve several collective problems of survival".[3] In her movie Les plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès), Varda says her film was inspired by William Faulkner's The Wild Palms.[4] In the magazine Cineaste, movie journalist Jonathan Kirshner pointed out themes in La Pointe Courte that Varda would revisit in later films, namely "a blend of documentary and fiction, detailed attentiveness to the economic conditions of the working class, subtle observations about the gender dynamics of social and familial relations, and, of course, the notable presence of cats.After seeing the footage she took there, she rented a camera to shoot a film about a couple from Paris who were visiting La Pointe Courte, the husband's home town.