Along with Claude Chabrol’s Le
Beau Serge and François Truffaut’s Les
Quatre cent coups, Paris nous appartient marks the debut of another great director
of the French New Wave... [More...]
Out 1 is like a more
avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true
piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...]
A subtle yet unmistakably dark study in obsession and an individual’s search for identity,
La Belle noiseuse is one of Jacques Rivette’s most remarkable films... [More...]
The first years of the new millenium have marked something of a revival for the French
New Wave, with Nouvelle Vague directors Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette
all releasing major works which achieved both... [More...]
Histoire de Marie et Julien is a marked contrast to Jacques Rivette’s previous
feature, Va
savoir (2000), and represents a kind of return to the darker... [More...]
There is a cold mortuary feel to this sombre portrayal of an impossible
love affair involving a coquettish noblewoman and a soldier set in the
early part of the Nineteenth Century... [More...]
