JacquesRivette.com is a tribute to Jacques Rivette(b. 1928 - present), one the masters of the french New Wave ! This site features a film library, a bookstore, a poster store, several links of interest and a shop. Jacques Rivette is the first of the Cahiers du Cinéma critics to direct a feature, and at age 73 he is still making films that challenge our perception of cinema and life, and the intersection of the two. Rivette frequently uses a work of theatre at the heart of his films (from Shakespeare's Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us to Pirandello's As You Desire Me in Va Savoir," and a continuing theme in his work is the conflict between fictional theatre and real life. The subject matter is often the process of creation itself-often rehearsal or artmaking (as in La Belle noiseuse). Rivette's style is marked by his willingness to make use of improvisation and to experiment with structure. The result is films that are intelligent, unpredictable, and, as Dave Kehr wrote, "animated by a sense of play-of fantasy, freedom, and wonder." Born in Rouen, France, in 1928, Jacques Rivette went to Paris in 1949 to pursue filmmaking. Rivette had already completed his first amateur film, a twenty-minute silent in 16mm called Aux quatre coins, earlier that year. Rivette hoped to study at the Institut des Haute Études Cinématographiques, but after failing the oral examination, he began his own cinematic education, at the Cinémathèque Français. It was there that he met other young cinephiles, including Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol. [Read more...] |
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