Noroît

El Biffo

Rivette was so cool. Even though I don't exactly understand why they all kill each other I guess because they are all fighting over the pirate treasure? I love how the violence is all very obviously fake like in a stage play, not like a modern movie where they make it look like realistically horrifying murder.

EdieEmm

Initially absorbing, in the way the worlds we used to make up as kids were absorbing; with their rules that emanated from an internal logic that we all just inherently understood; that were fun, but somehow also strangely serious, and time passed unnoticed... Now I notice. After an hour, despite Rivette's vision, the great diegetic music, the sets, my 4 stars started falling... 2.5, up from 2, for the brilliant end.

Michael Zyx MH Claes

RIVETTE, polygame cinématographe, marionnettiste des femmes, aime les coller ensemble, les faire s'affronter, se rapprocher. Butinant de femme en femme, ce film long & lent est 1 mille-feuille, 1 sabayon doux, parfois écoeurant. = RIVETTE, polygamous puppeteer of women, likes filming them close to each other. A long & slow movie like a layer cake, at times indigest. Bernadette LAFONT, Geraldine CHAPLIN, Kika MARKHAM.

Jason

Another Rivette born of and engaged w/ play. Play worlds. In fact, his ongoing interests in theatre and conspiracy become concerns w/ domains of play. Here we have something almost completely abstracted. The actors are taken far away from civilization and made to enact a theatre of deconstructed Jacobean revenge tragedy. A film about counterculture. Rivette may be the counterculture's most sly master of ceremonies.

Jesse Furgurson

Creepy, sexy, mesmeric. Sorta impenetrable, too, but who cares about that when a movie makes people move like this?

Lynch/Fellini

Jacques Rivette is eternally the most rigorous member of the Cashiers du Cinema filmmaker in the Nouvelle Vague. While Noroît is not his most challenging, it may be his most experimental, especially towards the end when the cinematography shifts formats and color pallets.

F.Bieberkopf

The Ruizian Rivette.

Dan and Val Freeman

Just what I want from French new wave - long winded and bonkers! So many ideas ... like an open air theatre version of The Tempest with performance art, musicians playing in the scenes and feminist pirates running amok. Nothing like it.