Jacques Rivette is a realizer of Cinéma French born with Rouen on March 1st 1928.

Biography

Jacques Rivette approaches the cinema by the means of the cinéphilie and criticism, like the majority of the future realizers of the New wave. He crosses regularly François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer with the Cinémathèque. He founds the Gazette of the cinema in 1950 with Eric Rohmer.

Critical with the Books of the cinema , it is the Editor association of 1963 with 1965. Assistant of Jacques Becker and Jean Renoir, it carries out in 1958 its first feature-length film, Paris belongs to us .

With his actors, Jacques Rivette uses a method which it preserved throughout his career: no the scenario, just some pages of synopsis. The text is given the day before or sometimes the day turning.

Its second feature-length film, Suzanne Simonin, the Nun of Diderot (Rivette for this reason holds, rather than with simple the the Nun , which had course a time), realized in 1966 according to the novel of Diderot, is prohibited temporarily by the French censure. Anna Karina interprets there Suzanne, a put young girl of force in a convent but which refuses to pronounce its wishes. With insane Love and Out 1: Noli me tangere (film which lasts 12 hours 40 and whose “short” version of 4:50 circulated under the title of Out 1: Spectrum ), it looks further into its research on the improvisation and the mixture between fiction and documentary.

Jacques Rivette is not a man of provocation, in spite of the scandal caused by Suzanne Simonin, the Nun of Diderot . Its films are founded on the idea that the cinema is an experiment, even an experimentation. He explores (and sometimes explodes) thus without regret and always with an obvious pleasure the usual standards, making fi briskly codes and conventions of 7th Article It is accordingly that he also works the question of the duration: the “case” Out 1 remains, for this reason, a single example in its kind and emblematic of the step iconoclast of Rivette; step which will become a constant in its work (duration of its films indeed almost always exceed the 2:30 and beyond). The length, even the slowness of works can reject, but it is to be taken as an experiment with whole share, even an experimentation (without counting that it allows the spectator agreeing “to circulate” with its ease in film, thus taking part “actively” in the filmic creative process renewed with each vision of film). It is particularly true for the very ludic Céline and Julie goes in boat (1974), in which intermingle the fantastic one and the daily newspaper. This impromptu imagination but of an impressive control nevertheless (what is not incompatible) convenes the phantoms of Jean Cocteau and Lewis Carroll (openly assumed references).

Rivette returns to a certain realism in the Bridge of North (1980), before again developing its favorite topics (the plot, the mystery, the theater) with the Love by ground (1984) and the Band of the four (1988).

In 1991, Emmanuelle Béart becomes Beautiful Noiseuse in the film éponyme, at the sides of Michel Piccoli and Jane Birkin, and Sandrine Bonnaire will be Jeanne d' Arc in the Diptyque Jeanne the Virgin (1994), composed of the Batailles and the Prisons .

In 2000, Jacques Rivette carries out Va to know , a comedy freely inspired of the Carrosse of gold of Jean Renoir, scenario writer to which it had devoted in 1966 a documentary heading Jean Renoir, the owner .

Such of the members of a theatrical troop (one could almost speak about a “Company Jacques Rivette”), many actors are found in several films of the scenario writer: Sandrine Bonnaire and Emmanuelle Béart in particular; the first in Secret defense (1997), the second in History of Marie and Julien (2004), two films where Rivette joins again with its dark vein. Jane Birkin, Anna Karina, Laurence Coast, Nathalie Richard or Jerzy Radziwilowicz also took part in several projects of Rivette.

Its last film, do not touch the axe (an adaptation of the novel of Balzac the Duchess of Langeais ) left on March 7th 2007, with Jeanne Balibar and Guillaume Depardieu in the main roles, and represented France with the Festival of Berlin.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • 1 {{er}} April 1966 /Interdiction of the film '' the Nun '' of Jacques Rivette
  • " Abjection" : analyzes polemic '' Kapo '' following the article of Rivette in the n° 120 of the Books of the Cinema

Sources

  • initial Source of the page: http://nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/rivette.htm

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