Agnes Varda as pregnant director / L'opéra-mouffe (1958) / P.1/2

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Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman. A mix of documentary footage and imagined scenes. Directed by Agnes Varda, the pioneer and "grandmother" of the French New Wave. "L'opéra-mouffe" is an early essay film by Agnès Varda, a free-associative exploration of the neighborhood around one of the streets in the Latin Quarter of Paris, a small network of back alleys, fruit markets, and charmingly rundown apartment buildings. Varda divides the film into ...