This film is considered by many critics as the starting point of the French New Wave film movement.
Director Agnès Varda made the film debut for roughly $14,000. All of the money went towards renting equipment and buying and processing film stock; none of the actors or crew members were paid.
The director said she was inspired to create a film based on two different stories alternating with each other, from reading an American novel with a similar structure, Wild Palms by William Faulkner.
The official poster for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival shows Agnès Varda standing on the back of a technician on a platform, shooting a scene for this movie.