Opera Mouffe (Short 1958)

Opera Mouffe: Directed by Agnès Varda. With Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, André Rousselet, Jean Tasso. Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

“A bit overshadowed by the works of male filmmakers of the late 1950s and early Sixties in France –as Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut and Resnais-, that helped to found the u0026quot;nouvelle vagueu0026quot;, Varda is nevertheless known as the u0026quot;grandmotheru0026quot; of this film movement, with her praised first feature u0026quot;La Pointe-Courteu0026quot; (1956) and this beautiful short made in Paris while she was pregnant, a homage to the Mouffetard street in Paris and its people, to love, life and old age, which she defined as u0026quot;neighborhood cinéma.u0026quot; A fresh and free-form exercise of images, songs and inter-titles, it confirmed the promise of a talented and innovative director, who went on to make more remarkable films as u0026quot;Cléo de 5 à 7u0026quot; (1961), u0026quot;Sans toit ni loiu0026quot; (1985), and, at 72, u0026quot;Les glaneurs et la glaneuse.u0026quot;”