“On the Verge of the Nouvelle Vague”: Films by Truffaut & Varda

When: Thursday, December 12 at 7 PM

Where: Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Avenue

About: Les Mistons (1957) by Francois Truffaut and La Pointe Courte (1956) by Agnes Varda.

• LES MISTONS French photo, 1957, from the #MBCarchive: Bernadette Jouve (Bernadette Lafont, in her debut, later a big star starting with Claude Chabrol’s Les beau Serge and Les bonnes femmes) is the most beautiful girl in town. In fact every young boy in town has been inspired by her seductive beauty. But since they are too young to love her, they decide the next best thing is to torture her with their childish games.
• LA POINTE COURTE French photo, 1956, from the #MBCarchive: La Pointe Courte is the feature film overlooking a future movement of the Nouvelle Vague, with the themes, tone and modernist concept that continued throughout its run for another decade. (In French with English subtitles).