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Photo of Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette

“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”

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    LA BELLE NOISEUSE

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1991

    To the scratch of a nib and the squelch of paint, Rivette’s sonorous and newly restored drama, immerses us in the artistic process, as a battle of wills unfolds between Michel Piccoli’s aging painter and Emmanuelle Béart’s reluctant muse. Roll up your sleeves because things are getting messy.

    DUELLE

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1976

    A phantasmagoric noir from Jacques Rivette, whose free-form tales of conspiracy and game-playing inspire clandestine fervor. Rivette followed his masterpiece Celine and Julie Go Boating with Duelle, championed by the Quinzaine, and starring the great Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier.

    GANG OF FOUR

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1989

    The most elusive of the French New Wave filmmakers won the Critics Prize at Berlin for this late-career masterwork, which combines everyday realism with a sneaking air of conspiracy. With characters trapped between reality and its representation, Gang of Four casts an enigmatic look at duality.

    JOAN THE MAID, PART 2: THE PRISONS

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1994

    In the conclusion to their two-part epic, the perfectly paired Jacques Rivette and Sandrine Bonnaire continue their atheistic approach to the life & death of Joan of Arc, chronicling Joan, the woman, at war and on trial. An elegant, understated, and uniquely human portrayal of the canonical figure.

    JOAN THE MAID, PART 1: THE BATTLES

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1994

    Casting the great Sandrine Bonnaire as his titular heroine, Jacques Rivette diverges from the stark expressionism of Dreyer and transcendent asceticism of Bresson for a rich and expansive six-hour, two-part epic. A singularly human and complicated character study, seen here in a new restoration.

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