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Along the Coast

Along the Coast

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 1958

Runtime

0h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

Du côté de la côte

Production Companies

Argos Films

Director

Agnès Varda

Description

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.