Jacques Rivette filmography
In 1956 Rivette made the short film
Rivette was unhappy with La Religieuse and re-evaluated his career, developing a unique cinematic style with
During the early 1980s, he began a business partnership with producer Martine Marignac, who produced all his subsequent films.[24] Rivette's output increased from then on, with films such as Gang of Four and La Belle Noiseuse receiving international praise.[25][26] He continued making films until 2009,[27] retiring after the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease made the production of 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup too difficult for him to continue.[27] Many of his films are known for their long running time, including the 760-minute Out 1. Almost always at the insistence of the distributors, Rivette edited shorter versions of five of his films and considered some of them to be entirely new films with different meanings.[1]
Films
Feature films
Year | Title | Original title | Duration (mins) | Awards | Notes | Ref. |
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1961 | Paris Belongs to Us | Paris nous appartient | 141 | Sutherland Trophy | Made 1957 to 1959. | [28][29][30] |
1966 | The Nun | La Religieuse | 140 | Filming began in 1965 | [31] | |
1969 | Mad Love
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L'Amour fou | 252 | Sutherland Trophy | Alternative version: 120 minutes | [31][32] |
1971 | Out 1: Don't Touch Me | Out 1: Noli me tangere | 760 | Official alternate version: Out 1: Spectre (1974; 260 minutes). "Restored" version of Out 1: Noli me tangere (2006; 750 minutes) | [31] | |
1974 | Celine and Julie Go Boating | Céline et Julie vont en bateau | 193 | Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival
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[33][34] | |
1976 | Duelle | Duelle (une quarantaine) | 120 | Part 2: Scènes de la vie parallèle / Les Filles du Feu (Scenes of a Parallel Life / Girls of Fire) | [33] | |
1976 | Noroît | Noroît (une vengeance) | 130 | Part 3: Scènes de la vie parallèle / Les Filles du Feu (Scenes of a Parallel Life / Girls of Fire) Not theatrically released |
[35] | |
1980 | Merry-Go-Round | Merry-Go-Round | 155 | Filming began in 1977, post-production was completed in 1981 | [35] | |
1981 | Le Pont du Nord | Le Pont du Nord | 127 | [35] | ||
1984 | Love on the Ground | L'amour par terre | 170 | Alternative version: 120 minutes | [35] | |
1985 | Wuthering Heights | Hurlevent | 130 | [36] | ||
1989 | Gang of Four | La Bande des quatre | 160 | FIPRESCI Award and Honorable Mention at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival
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[36][37] | |
1991 | La Belle Noiseuse | La Belle Noiseuse | 240 | Grand Prize of the Jury and Special Mention Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival Best Foreign Film from the Kinema Junpo Awards Prix Méliès from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Best Foreign Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |
Official alternate version: La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento (1991; 120 minutes) | [36][38][39][40][41] |
1994 | Joan the Maiden
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Jeanne la Pucelle | 335 | Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles (160 minutes), Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons (175 minutes) | [42] | |
1995 | Up, Down, Fragile | Haut bas fragile | 170 | [43] | ||
1998 | Top Secret
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Secret défense | 170 | [43] | ||
2001 | Who Knows? | Va savoir | 154 | Best Foreign Film at the Turia Awards Jury Special Prize at the Valladolid International Film Festival
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Original director's cut: Va savoir+ (2002; 220 minutes) | [43][44][45] |
2003 | The Story of Marie and Julien | Histoire de Marie et Julien | 151 | Unofficially Part 1: Scènes de la vie parallèle / Les Filles du Feu (Scenes of a Parallel Life / Girls of Fire) | [46] | |
2007 | The Duchess of Langeais | Ne touchez pas la hache | 137 | [46] | ||
2009 | Around a Small Mountain | 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup | 84 | [29] |
Short films and television work
Year | Title | Original title | Length | Notes | Ref. |
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1949 | At the Four Corners | Aux quatre coins | 20 minutes | Previously believed to be lost, rediscovered in 2016 | [29][47] |
1950 | The Quadrille | Le quadrille | 40 minutes | Previously believed to be lost, rediscovered in 2016 | [29][47] |
1952 | The Diversion | Le divertissement | 40 minutes | Previously believed to be lost, rediscovered in 2016 | [29][47] |
1956 | Fool's Mate | Le Coup du berger | 28 minutes | [29] | |
1966 | Portrait of Michel Simon by Jean Renoir or Portrait of Jean Renoir by Michel Simon or The direction of actors: dialogue | Portrait de Michel Simon par Jean Renoir ou Portrait de Jean Renoir par Michel Simon ou La direction d'acteurs: dialogue | 97 minutes | Episode from the TV series Cinéastes de notre temps | [29] |
1967 | Jean Renoir, The Master, Parts 1–3 | Jean Renoir, le patron | 266 minutes | Three episodes from the TV series Cinéastes de notre temps: La recherché du relatif, La direction d'acteurs and La regle et l'exception | [29] |
1973 | Essai sur l'agression | Essai sur l'agression | 23 minutes | [29] | |
1974 | Birth and Death of Prometheus | Naissance et mort de Prométhée | 41 minutes | [29] | |
1981 | Paris Goes Away | Paris s'en va | 30 minutes | Short film made as a "rehearsal" for Le Pont du Nord from outtakes, alternate takes, and extra footage | [48][16] |
1995 | One of Ninon's Adventures
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"Paris" Segment | 52 seconds | Part of the omnibus film Lumiere and Company | [29] |
Other work
Year | Title | Director | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1950 | Le Château de verre
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René Clément | Actor | Rivette and Godard appear as extras approximately 47 minutes into the film | [8] |
1952 | Les Petites filles modèles | Éric Rohmer | Editor (uncredited) | Short film (unfinished) | [49] |
1954 | Bérénice | Éric Rohmer | Cinematographer, Editor | Short film | [50] |
1954 | Une Visite | François Truffaut | Cinematographer | Short film | [48] |
1954 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Jacques Becker | Assistant director | [10] | |
1954 | French Cancan | Jean Renoir | Assistant director | [10] | |
1956 | La Sonate à Kreutzer | Éric Rohmer | Cinematographer | Short film | [48] |
1956 | Fool's Mate | Jacques Rivette | Narrator (uncredited) | Short film | [10] |
1960 | À bout de souffle | Jean-Luc Godard | Actor | Played the dead body of a man who was hit by a car | [48] |
1961 | Paris Belongs to Us | Jacques Rivette | Actor | Played the Romanian man at the party | [48] |
1961 | Jean Renoir parle de son art, Parts 1–3 | Jean-Marie Coldefy | Interviewer | Rivette interviewed Renoir for three TV episodes: 1: Le cinéma et la parole, 2: Les progress de la technique, and 3: Le retour au naturel | [51] |
1961 | Chronique d'un été
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Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin | Participant | Rivette appeared briefly with his girlfriend Marilù Parolini, who was a main subject in the documentary | [10] |
1970 | Rome is Burning (Portrait of Shirley Clarke) | André S. Labarthe | Interviewee | Episode of Cinéastes de notre temps | [52] |
1977 | Toute révolution est un coup de dés | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
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Dedicatee | Shot by William Lubtchansky and co-starring Marilù Parolini | [53] |
1979 | La mémoire courte | Eduardo de Gregorio | Actor | Played Marcel Jaucourt. Shot by William Lubtchansky and edited by Nicole Lubtchansky | [29][48] |
1983 | Rivette et Stévenin vont au bistrot | Jean-François Stévenin | Interviewee | Episode of Cinéma, Cinémas | [54] |
1989 | Rivette: Histories du titres | Michel Boujut and Claude Ventura | Interviewee | Episode of Cinéma, Cinémas | [55] |
1990 | Jacques Rivette, le veilleur | Claire Denis and Serge Daney | Interviewee | Full-length biography, episode of Cinéastes de notre temps | [29][48] |
1994 | Joan the Maiden , Part 1: The Battles
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Jacques Rivette | Actor | Played le prêtre | [56] |
1995 | Up, Down, Fragile | Jacques Rivette | Actor | Played Monsieur Pierre | [57] |
Theater work
Dates | Title | Venue | Notes | Ref. |
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February 6 to March 5, 1963 | La Religieuse | Studio des Champs-Élysées | Later adapted into the film La Religieuse. | [17] |
April 18 to May 20, 1989 | Tite et Bérénice and Bajazet | Théâtre Gérard Philipe | Same main cast from Gang of Four. | [17] |
Alternative versions of his films
Rivette edited shorter versions of several of his films with long running times. When L'Amour fou was released in January 1969 the 127 minute alternate version was simultaneously released at the production company's request. This version was simply a shorter version of the original work and Rivette immediately disowned it.[58]
The shorter Out 1: Spectre was 260 minutes and released in March 1974.[59] Rivette said that Spectre was more of "a fiction about certain characters", "much tighter", "more compelling"[60] and that it was "a different film having its own logic; closer to a jigsaw or crossword puzzle than was [Noli me tangere], playing less on affectivity, more on rhymes and contrasts, ruptures and connections, caesurae and censorship."[61] When Out 1: Noli me tangere was restored in 2006, Rivette re-edited the film, rearranging scenes and cutting a ten-minute sequence out of the original 760 minute version.[62]
Love on the Ground was released as a 120-minute version after Rivette was forced to cut 50 minutes by the film's distributor.[63] He said that the longer version was more complex and "structured similarly to Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa, where there is a phrase, and then a parenthesis, which is tied to yet another phrase, and another parenthesis, ad infinitum." In order to cut 50 minutes out he simply "lifted the parentheses."[64]
The shorter cut of La Belle noiseuse (called La Belle noiseuse: Divertimento) was 120 minutes. He made this version due to contractual obligations to the film's producers and used different takes than the original film. This version is an entirely new film and not just a shorter version of the original work. The word Divertimento is both a reference to Igor Stravinsky's Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée and translates to a "not too serious work."[65] This shorter version changes the film's focus from the process of creating art to the evaluation of the finished product.[66]
Rivette's original 220 minute cut of Va Savoir (called Va Savoir+) premiered on 24 April 2002 and only sold 1,734 tickets in its seven-week theatrical run at the cinema du Pantheon in Paris.[67] Rivette said that Va Savoir+ is a completely different film than Va Savoir, the major difference being lengthy scenes of the actors performing Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi instead of just rehearsals. Rivette said that in the longer version Pirandello's play is "another character" in the film.[68]
See also
References
- Notes
- ^ a b Wiles 2012, pp. 151–162.
- ^ Baecque 2010, p. 55.
- ^ a b Baecque 2010, p. 39.
- ^ Baecque 2010, p. 37.
- ^ Monaco 1976, p. 313.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 2.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 3.
- ^ a b "Jacques Rivette". AlloCiné. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
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- ^ a b c d e "BFI | Film & TV Database | Rivette, Jacques". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ Baecque 2010, p. 52.
- ^ Baecque & Toubiana 1999, p. 49.
- ^ a b Baecque & Toubiana 1999, p. 150.
- ^ Gallagher 1998, p. 458.
- ^ Truffaut 1994, p. 320.
- ^ a b c d e Wakeman 1988, pp. 895–902.
- ^ a b c Wiles 2012, p. 162.
- ^ Brody 2008, p. 207.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 24.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 41.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 63.
- ^ Wiles 2012, pp. 143–144.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 74.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 146.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 115.
- ^ Austerlitz, Saul (January 2003). "Jacques Rivette – Great Director profile". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b Tonet, Aureliano; Nouchi, Franck; Mandelbaum, Jacques; Sotinel, Thomas; Fabre, Clarisse (30 January 2016). "Pour Rivette, les films étaient constitués comme des complots". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 255.
- ^ Allrovi. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Paris nous appartient , Paris is ours". Metropolis Art Cinema. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ a b c Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 256.
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- ^ a b Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 257.
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- ^ a b c d Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 258.
- ^ a b c Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 259.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1989 Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ "Le Palmarès 1991 : Compétition". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
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- ^ "Liste des Prix du meilleur film français depuis 1946" (in French). French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 260.
- ^ a b c Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 261.
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- ^ "Así fueron ... Los ganadores del festival (2001–2015)". Valladolid International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ a b Morrey & Smith 2010, pp. 262.
- ^ a b c Pichard, Hervé (10 May 2016). "Il a bien fallu que naisse un jour le cinéma moderne... » : trois courts métrages inédits de Jacques Rivette" (in French). Cinémathèque française. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
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- ^ Baecque & Herpe 2016, p. 79.
- ^ Baecque & Herpe 2016, p. 91.
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- ^ "Toute révolution est un coup de dés". www.straub-huillet.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Hommage à Jacques Rivette". Cinémathèque française. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Rivette : histoires de titres". Institut national de l'audiovisuel. 5 March 1989. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 157.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 158.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 42.
- ^ Wiles 2012, pp. 153–154.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 58.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 54.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 137.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 156.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 116.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 38.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 40.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 160.
- ^ Wiles 2012, p. 91.
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