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Jacques Rivette - what members say

Va Savoir review by Zamy from LONDON

4 August 2004
...ry difficult to relax into watching it. A difficult and challenging film maker, Jacques Rivette did not take me with him on this one, I'm afraid. So my 4 stars are more a refl... Read customer review

Histoires De Marie Et Julien review by from leamington

Slower than Easter Monday traffic 17 May 2005
...while sitting on a bed of sharpened nails - it will help you to keep awake. All Jacques Rivette?s films make a snail look like a cheetah on speed but this one is a record brea... Read customer review

La Belle Noiseuse review by from Yorkshire

Not for everyone 3 February 2004
...e result is French cinema at its most stereotypical. I would recommend watching Jacques Rivette’s next project, "Diveritimento", instead, which is comprised completely of outt... Read customer review

Jacques Rivette - filmography

Around a Small Mountain (2010)
Starring: Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon
Director: Jacques Rivette, Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel.

68% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Don't Touch the Axe on DVD (2007)
Starring: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Set during the Restoration, when society was dominated by hypocrisy, the importance of appearances and money, the film follows the ups and downs of a doomed love story, with a blend of passion and revenge between General Montriveau and the Duchesse de Langeais.

45% from 565 members

Histoires De Marie Et Julien on DVD (2003)
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (The Story of Marie and Julien) stars Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a pair of ex-lovers who get back together after their lives change. Julien (Radziwilowicz) is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie (Béart) is a ..read more »

50% from 1,613 member

Va Savoir on DVD (2001)
Starring: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
An Italian theatre company, on tour across Europe, comes to Paris to stage "As You Desire Me" by Pirandello. Within this company, Camille is the leading actress and companion to Ugo, the director of the play and company. She is also the only actress of French origin in the group. It is the first ..read more »

52% from 654 members

Secret Defense on DVD (1998)
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
While working in her lab, Sylvie catches her younger brother Paul stealing a gun she keeps in a drawer. Paul believes a man named Walser murdered their father by pushing him off a train, a death that was orginally ruled a suicide. Sylvie tries to shield her younger brother by trying to shoot Walser ..read more »

58% from 116 members

Jeanne La Pucelle - The Battles on DVD (1994)
Starring: Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Jacques Rivette's austere and magnificent epic masterpiece.

63% from 96 members

Jeanne La Pucelle - The Prisons on DVD (1994)
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Marcon & Jean-Louis Richard
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
The second part of Jacques Rivette's austere and magnificent epic masterpiece.

72% from 58 members

La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento on DVD (1991)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
La Belle Noiseuse (Diverimento): In Jacques Rivette's award winning, critically acclaimed film, Beart plays the beautiful and fascinating Marianne who becomes the inspiration and new model for artist Michael Piccolio s previsouly abandoned masterpiece. This is the 2 hour ‘Divertimento’ alternative ..read more »

10% from 1 member

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
A famous artist attempts to complete a half finished master-piece when he discovers a new model. French dialogue with English subtitles.

61% from 2,251 members
Not currently released

Gang Of Four on DVD (1988)
Starring: Bulle Ogier, Benoit Regent, Fejria Deliba
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia movies in with the other girls in a small house outside of Paris. Soon after, Lucia is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger. Then she ..read more »

55% from 72 members

Wuthering Heights on DVD (1985)
Starring: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Bronte's classic novel is set in the 1930's French countryside in this beautiful and sensual retelling.

44% from 57 members

Love On The Ground on DVD (1984)
Starring: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, Andre Dussollier
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Life imitates art in this 1980s comedy-mystery, directed by the venerable Jacques Rivette. The plot revolves around a couple of semi-professional actresses, and their small theatrical troupe, who are invited to a famous playwright's mansion to rehearse a play. Things take a turn for the bizarre ..read more »

56% from 91 members

Celine And Julie Go Boating on DVD (1974)
Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a Librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, finance, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-..read more »

64% from 872 members

Paris Nous Appartient on DVD (1960)
Starring: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Francoise Prevost
Director: Jacques Rivette
Certificate:
Acclaimed 1961 French flick directed by Rivette.

62% from 435 members

Jacques Rivette facts

5 most recent films

Around a Small Mountain - 3.5 stars
Don't Touch the Axe - 2.5 stars
Histoires De Marie Et Julien - 2.5 stars
Va Savoir - 2.5 stars
Secret Defense - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jeanne La Pucelle - The Prisons - 3.5 stars
Celine And Julie Go Boating - 3.0 stars
Jeanne La Pucelle - The Battles - 3.0 stars
Paris Nous Appartient - 3.0 stars
La Belle Noiseuse - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento - 0.5 stars
Around a Small Mountain - 3.5 stars
Wuthering Heights - 2.0 stars
Don't Touch the Axe - 2.5 stars
Histoires De Marie Et Julien - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bulle Ogier - 5 times - show films
Jane Birkin - 4 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 4 times - show films
Emmanuelle Beart - 3 times - show films
Sandrine Bonnaire - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jacques Rivette - 1 times - show films