Directed by Jacques Rivette
12 Episodes
One of the most innovative and enigmatic directors of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette approached filmmaking as a kind of choose-your-own-adventure of the imagination, crafting sprawling, immersive works that unfold as labyrinths, games, and puzzles to be deciphered. Blurring the boundaries between narrative and improvisation, fiction and reality, his films invite audiences to witness not just a story, but the very process of storytelling itself. Whether turning the streets of Paris into a playground in open-air fantasias like CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING and LE PONT DU NORD or exploring mysterious interior states in mesmerizing dramas like L’AMOUR FOU and LA BELLE NOISEUSE, Rivette evokes a world both grounded and dreamlike, where every visual choice seems to unlock a door to deeper layers of meaning.
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2:50:13Episode 1
Up, Down, Fragile
Episode 1
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1995 • France
Starring Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence CôteDuring 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...
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Va savoir
Episode 2
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 2001 • France
Starring Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Sergio CastellittoOne 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 ...
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3:58:56Episode 3
La belle noiseuse
Episode 3
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1991 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle BéartJacques 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...
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2:42:31Episode 4
The Gang of Four
Episode 4
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1989 • France
Starring Benoît Régent, Bulle Ogier, Fejria DelibaFour 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...
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2:40:38Episode 5
Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Episode 5
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Tatiana Moukhine, Jean-Marie RichierJacques 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...
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2:56:44Episode 6
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Episode 6
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis RichardJacques 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...
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2:56:42Episode 7
Love on the Ground
Episode 7
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1984 • France
Starring Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André DussollierThis 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...
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4:15:19Episode 8
L’amour fou
Episode 8
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1969 • France
Starring Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, André S. LabartheIn 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...
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3:14:10Episode 9
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Episode 9
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1974 • France
Starring Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle OgierWhiling 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...
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2:09:22Episode 10
Le Pont du Nord
Episode 10
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1981 • France
Starring Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre ClémentiPerfect 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...
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2:22:05Episode 11
Paris Belongs to Us
Episode 11
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1961 • France
Starring Betty Schneider, François Maistre, Giani EspositoOne 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 ...
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28:10Episode 12
Le coup du berger
Episode 12
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...