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Along the Coast

  • November 1958
  • 26mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Agnès Varda,

    Starring

    Roger Coggio,

    Anne Ollivier,

    Jacopo Nizi,

    Brigitte Bardot

    ...

    Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.