Rivett, Jacques

Born in the family of a pharmacist. In 1949 he came to Paris with the dream of doing cinema. Failed in an oral exam at the Institute of Higher Cinematographic Research. Cinephilus constantly met Godard , Truffaut , Romer in the Paris Cinematheque , who soon formed a new wave in French cinema (Truffaut admitted that the new wave was born thanks to Rivett). In 1950, together with Romer, he founded the Newsreel . A critic, who constantly appeared at Les Cahiers du cinema from 1952 , he became the editor-in-chief of the magazine in 1963-1965 .

He worked as an assistant for Becker and Renoir , and also experienced a noticeable influence of the experimental theories of Rush ^[1] . He made several short films, in 1960 he shot his first full-length film Paris belongs to us .

J. Rivett in 2006

Rivett was one of the few who continued to follow the principles of the new wave , upholding and making auteur cinema . His films, by commercial standards, are impossibly long and plotless, almost entirely improvisational. He willingly revealed the conventions of cinema art (scenes from theatrical performances are not uncommon in his films), which only emphasized the director’s penchant for surrealistic fantasy in everyday life, for the game and made critics writing about his cinema remember the names of Carroll and Cocteau .

Usually he worked with a narrow circle - a troupe or company - of actors, which included Bul Ogier (played in seven Rivetta films), Juliette Berto , Jean-Pierre Calphon , Ermine Carages , Sandrine Bonner , Emmanuelle Bear , Jane Birkin .

• 1960 - Paris belongs to us / Paris nous appartient (British Film Institute Award, 1962 )
• 1966 - Nun / La religieuse (based on the novel of the same name by Denis Didro )
• 1968 - Crazy Love / L'Amour fou (British Film Institute Award, 1969 )
• 1971 - Out 1: Don't Touch Me / Out 1: Noli me tangere - 13-hour movie, one of the longest in movie history
  • 1973 - Out 1: Ghost / Out 1: Specter - an abridged 4-hour version of the previous
• 1974 - Celine and Julie completely lie / Céline et Julie vont en bateau (special jury award at the Locarno Film Festival , 1974 )
• 1976 - Duel (une quarantaine)
• 1976 - North Wind / Noroît
• 1978 - Carousel / Merry-Go-Round
• 1981 - North Bridge / Le Pont du Nord
• 1984 - The Downed Angel, or Love on the Grass / L'Amour par terre
• 1985 - Wuthering Heights / Hurlevent (based on Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights )
• 1988 - The Gang of Four / La Bande des quatre ( FIPRESCI Prize of the Berlin Film Festival , 1989 )
• 1991 - La Belle Noiseuse (Grand Cannes IFF Jury Award, Ecumenical Jury Award, 1991 )
• 1994 - Jeanne La Pucelle
• 1995 - Top, Bottom, Fragile / Haut bas fragile
• 1995 - Lumiere and company / Lumière et compagnie
• 1997 - Secret Defense / Secret défense
• 2001 - Who knows / Va savoir (based on the play by Luigi Pirandello "How do you want me"; special award from the jury of the Valladolid Film Festival)
• 2003 - The Story of Marie and Julien / Histoire de Marie et Julien
• 2007 - Do not touch the ax / Ne touchez pas la hache (according to Balzac 's novel “The Duchess de Lange”)
• 2009 - 36 species from the peak of Saint-Loup / 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup

Cinema Rivetta attracted the attention of Serge Dane , Jonathan Rosenbaum , Gilles Deleuze , Noel Birch , David Ehrenstein, Thomas Elsesser and other film critics and film analysts.

• Rosenbaum J. Rivette: Texts & Interviews. London: British Film Institute, 1977
• Rivette: critique et cinéaste. Paris: Lettres modernes; Minard, 1998
• La nouvelle vague: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1999
• Deschamps H. Jacques Rivette: théâtre, amour, cinéma. Paris: Harmattan, 2001
• Frappat H. Jacques Rivette, secret compris. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2001
• De Pascale G. Jacques Rivette. Milano: Il Castoro, 2002

• Jacques Rivette belongs to us: film director's guide (Cineticle)
• Jacques Rivette. Modernist in search of a conspiracy ("Session")
• Jacques Rivette and Other Place / Translated text on the work of the director from the magazine Cinema Scope
• Jacques Rivette: Narrative Delight / An article by Robin Wood about two of the director’s key films: Crazy Love and Celine and Julie completely lied
• Jacques Rivett about his favorite films (Cineticle)
• Articles and essays by Jacques Rivett (Cineticle)
• Jacques Rivett about Boris Barnet’s film “Generous Summer” (“Session”)
• Director as a psychoanalyst. Interview with Jacques Rivett (Cineticle)
• A poem without a hero. About the film “Do not Touch the Ax” by Jacques Rivett (“The Art of Cinema”)
• Mad not of her own free will. About the movie “Crazy Love” by Jacques Rivett (“The Art of Cinema”)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190309062254/http://www.jacques-rivette.com/ (English)
• Jacques Rivette at IMDB
• Jacques Rivette at Senses of cinema