Along the Coast

1958 · 26 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 1,298 VOTES · DIR. Agnès Varda

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Overview

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.

Documentary1950s

Dialogue Timeline — 245 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:27 An uneven coastline, and azure...
00:02:00 Editing
00:03:44 Cannes awakes with 32,003 emigrants,
00:04:23 took off his habit in order to marry his niece,
00:04:49 the cypresses,
00:05:20 Seduced by his quarantine in Cannes,
00:05:44 spent his honeymoon in the Hôtel de Paris in Monaco.
00:06:17 Giraudoux, in Porquerolles,
00:06:52 It takes humanity along in its burning race,
00:08:23 They are far away.
00:08:51 A Russian church,
00:09:45 they don't try to remember the names of the plants.
00:10:33 like Cro-Magnon, the first famous man, and the oldest dead,
00:11:00 and rehabilitate the inhabited relics, the most precious of the Riviera:
00:11:35 In Cogolin.
00:12:51 Camping being the airiest form of freedom,
00:13:35 The Riviera's deceased is of quality.
00:14:11 the cock has fallen from the bell tower,
00:14:46 FRENZY
00:16:08 you are somebody or you're not.
00:17:48 Pedal boats on the other side of EDEN.
00:20:50 Eden exists.
00:24:12 the water lily is a lingering sigh.
00:24:52 the summer season comes to an end.

Cast & Characters

Roger Coggio Narrator (voice)
Anne Ollivier Narrator (voice)
Jacopo Nizi Souffleur (voice)
Brigitte Bardot Self (archive footage) Sophia Loren Self (archive footage)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed245
Dialogue density9.4 lines / min
First line00:00:27
Final line00:24:52

Production Record

DirectorAgnès Varda
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,298

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