Pssst, want to check out Du côté de la côte in our new look?
Information
- A.k.a.
- Along the Coast
- Year
- 1958
- Runtime
- 25 min.
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Genres
- History, Documentary, Short
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 358
- Checks
- 289
- Favs
- 16
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 5.5% (1:18)
- Favs/dislikes
- 16:1
Top comments
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Dimitris Psachos Springer
There's a download link available, in case it doesn't play in its streaming format!
https://tube.4aem.com/videos/watch/ff3b14bc-09eb-4de1-b7c0-7f888d71177a
https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/sublanguageid-all/idmovie-40916 3 years 1 month ago -
Siskoid
Even when Agnès Varda is working in documentary shorts for the tourism board, she is still immensely clever and poetic. Just as Du côté de la côte - a portrait of the French Riviera - plays with words in its title yet has is lamely titled Along the Coast in English, I think it loses a lot in its English subtitles. In French, the text is full of clever word play and poetry that makes the short rise above this kind of fare. Varda shows the same photographer's eye scanning the coast for interesting imagery that she'd already mastered in La Pointe-Courte, both in terms of scenery and observing real people in action. And yes, she also manages to get a cat in there! In terms of tone, the portrait is a loving one, but is playful too, whether it's taking shots at British business encrusted in the region, or how German women don't follow the right trends, or even in the way the region is explored almost as stream of consciousness, cutting from idea to the next often with a wry smile. 4 years 9 months ago -