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Au Quatre Coins

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An early “practice film” of visual experimentation.

Considered by Jacques Rivette as “practice films”, these early images offer us a view of the beginning of his artistic journey. AUX QUATRE COINS includes an original device that immediately sets itself apart from any other classic narrative form. AUX QUATRE COINS does not have any intertitles but black images between a few shots. Rivette offers the viewer intriguing visual forms, encouraging him to imagine his own story. (Hervé Pichard)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Francis Bouchet, Monique Guèvallo

Year of production: 1949
Running time: 20’
Country: France

Le Quadrille

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A chamber drama with two men and two women in a room, their relations expressed as a game of suggestive glances and the lighting and stubbing-out of cigarettes.

Though Godard got a little money from his family, he admitted that the money that went into Rivette’s film came from stealing and selling books from his grandfather Monod’s “Valérianum”. The film featured four actors: two women and two men, one of them Godard. According to Rivette, “It ran 40 minutes and nothing happens. It’s just four people sitting around a table, looking at each other. After ten minutes, people started to leave, and at the end, the only ones who stayed were Jean-Luc and a girl.” (Richard Brody)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Liliane Litvin, Anne-Marie Cazalis, François Nithart

Year of production: 1950
Running time: 40’
Country: France

Entertainment

admin — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 01:25:55 +0000

Paris rendered as a labyrinth of intrigues.

We discover in these three early films how the filmmaker gradually mastered the art of mise-en-scène and editing. Filmed in Parisian parks and on a terrace, LE DIVERTISSEMENT foreshadows the labyrinthine walks that would be a part of Rivette’s cinema, in which the characters look for, follow and find each other like in a romantic scavenger hunt. The intertitles of LE DIVERTISSEMENT and LE QUADRILLE anticipate the Rivette’s tone and singular poetry. (Hervé Pichard)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Olga Waren, Sacha Briquet, Alain Mac Moy

Year of production: 1952
Running time: 42’
Country: France

General Assembly

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The annual general assembly of co-owners: quarrels for nothing, trustee’s defeat, it turns wacky.

Director: Luc Moullet

Year of production: 2014
Running time: 17’
Country: France

Hugues

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Hugues is 40 years old. He’s an actor but he doesn’t want to play anymore. He came back in his house where he grew up with his partner Serge.
However, Micheline, a director, insist for him to go back on set. But Serge give him an final warning: him or play. He finally choose to play.
While rehearsals begins, Hugues alone in his house, discover naked people having fun in the meadow next to the garden.

Director: Pascal Cervo
Cast: Arnaud Simon, Gaëtan Vourc’h, Dominique Reymond

Year of production: 2017
Running time: 48’
Country: France

You Want a Story?

admin — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 01:22:15 +0000

You want a story ? Put a women on a train and imagine that one of them is redhead.

Director: Antonin Peretjatko
Cast: Pauline Ghersi, Lucie Borleteau
Edit: Antonin Peretjatko

Year of production: 2014
Running time: 10’
Country: France

The Painting

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Though in their twilight years, Odile and Marcel are still in love. Diagnosed with an incurable illness, Odile must be hospitalized. In the final hours of a last Sunday, they are reunited with those they love.

Director: Laurent Achard
Cast: Thérèse Roussel, Fred Personne, Pascal Cervo

Year of production: 2013
Running time: 30’
Country: France