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

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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 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 street in the Latin Quarter of Paris , a small network of back alleys, fruit markets, and charmingly rundown apartment buildings. Varda divides the film into segments with ...