Writer 1928 - 2016

Jacques Rivette

Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

Jacques Rivette (March 1, 1928 - January 29, 2016) was a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette was one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he had a background in film criticism,... Read full bio →

Filmography

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36 vues du Pic Saint Loup

Jacques Rivette 2009 1h 24m

Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel.

Ne touchez pas la hache

Jacques Rivette 2007 2h 13m 7.5

At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor.

Histoire de Marie et Julien

Jacques Rivette 2003 2h 30m

Julien meets Marie, who moves in but hides a haunting secret; as he investigates her past, love collides with mystery and the risk of losing her forever.

Secret défense

Jacques Rivette 1998 2h 54m

After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.

Haut bas fragile

Jacques Rivette 1995 2h 49m

A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.

La belle noiseuse

Jacques Rivette 1991 3h 58m 8.3

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

La bande des quatre

Jacques Rivette 1989 2h 40m

Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger.

Hurlevent

Jacques Rivette 1985 2h 6m

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

L'amour par terre

Jacques Rivette 1984 2h 56m

A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

Merry-Go-Round

Jacques Rivette 1981 2h 40m 6.0

It stars Joe Dallesandro, as New Yorker Ben Phillips, and Maria Schneider, as the sexy and mysterious Léo Hoffmann, as strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.

Le pont du Nord

Jacques Rivette 1981 2h 9m 9.0

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters.

Noroît

Jacques Rivette 1976 2h 25m

Morag se rend au chateau de Giulia, fille du soleil, pour venger son frère, tué par des amis de celle-ci.

Duelle (une quarantaine)

Jacques Rivette 1976 2h 1m

Deux magiciennes immortelles, Leni et Viva, s'affrontent dans Paris. L'une craint la nuit, l'autre la lumière. Toutes deux convoitent une bague qui leur permettra de rester sur Terre, et qui est détenue par des mortels.

Out 1: Spectre

Jacques Rivette 1973 4h 13m

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...