Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1995 • France
Starring Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte

During a sultry Paris summer, the lives of three young women—shy librarian Ida (Laurence Côte), searching for her birth parents; wealthy Louise (Marianne Denicourt), looking for her footing a...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 2001 • France
Starring Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Sergio Castellitto

One of director Jacques Rivette’s most purely delightful works, this fanciful tale of love and art trains a wittily ironic eye on the intersecting relationships between a coterie of bohemian ...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1991 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart

Jacques Rivette’s abiding fascination with the interplay between life and art receives one of its most spellbinding treatments in this sensuous, hypnotic exploration of the creative process. Taking...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1989 • France
Starring Benoît Régent, Bulle Ogier, Fejria Deliba

Four women, a shadowy conspiracy, and a whole lot of acting exercises: we’re firmly in Jacques Rivette territory in one of the director’s most spellbinding explorations of the thin line between everyda...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Tatiana Moukhine, Jean-Marie Richier

Jacques Rivette puts his own inimitable stamp on the immortal story of Joan of Arc with this sprawling, two-part study, which brings a new perspective to her much-mythologized life by for...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard

Jacques Rivette puts his own inimitable stamp on the immortal story of Joan of Arc with this sprawling, two-part study, which brings a new perspective to her much-mythologized life by forgoin...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1984 • France
Starring Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier

This overlooked jewel in the filmography of French New Wave titan Jacques Rivette is a beguiling haunted-house mystery about the riddles of love and art. Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star a...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1969 • France
Starring Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, André S. Labarthe

In many ways a breakthrough work for director Jacques Rivette (and a thematic precursor to his legendary OUT 1, released two years later), this epic portrait of a relationship in breakdown fou...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1974 • France
Starring Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier

Whiling away a summer in Paris, director Jacques Rivette, working in close collaboration with his stars and coconspirators Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, set out to rewrite the rules of cin...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1981 • France
Starring Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti

Perfect strangers Marie (Bulle Ogier) and Baptiste (Bulle’s daughter Pascale Ogier) run into each other three times on an otherwise ordinary day in Paris and decide that fate has brought them togeth...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1961 • France
Starring Betty Schneider, François Maistre, Giani Esposito

One of the original critics turned filmmakers who helped jump-start the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette began shooting his debut feature in 1958, well before that cinema revolution officially ...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1956 • France

Just before embarking on PARIS BELONGS TO US, Jacques Rivette directed the following 1956 short film about an adulterous wife and her lover’s attempt to figure out how she will explain his gift of a mink coat. Cowritten by fellow French New Wave lumina...