Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Le Pont du Nord originally ran as a home video review. Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord (out on Blu-ray this week from Kino Lorber) gives us a...
Title: Joan the Maid 1: The Battles & Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons Year: 1994 Director: Jacques Rivette Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Marcon, Baptiste Roussillon, Yann Collette, Tatiana Moukhine Synopsis: Part 1 chronicles the life of Joan of Arc...
There’s nothing better than watching a movie that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Celine and Julie Go Boating is a flooring experience. Rivette swivels and steers through the thematic, narrative, stylistic and even philosophical domains with the relative ease,...
It may be difficult for most of us to imagine any reason to become a nun other than religious devotion and the belief in a higher calling. But in Jacques Rivette’s 1966 film La Religieuse (based on a novel by...
Title: Celine and Julie Go Boating Year: 1974 Director: Jacques Rivette Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Barbet Schroeder, Marie-France Pisier Synopsis: Celine and Julie quickly become friends, then roommates, and shortly afterward they share one another’s identities as...