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 found the French New Wave’s most uncompromising auteur pushing the conventions of cinema to their limit to explore his trademark obsessions with the boundaries between performance and reality, stage and cinema, structure and improvisation, and the modern and the mythic. Amid rehearsals for a televised production of Racine’s “Andromaque,” an actor (Bulle Ogier) and theater director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) see their marriage implode, a situation that grows increasingly volatile when he replaces her with his mistress.
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Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1974 • France
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Le Pont du Nord
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1981 • France
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Paris Belongs to Us
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 ...
