Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director.

Biography

Jacques Rivette was born in Rouen. In 1950, Rivette joined the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin, and began to write film criticism for the Gazette du Cinema, a small film journal. During this time, he made his first short films, Aux Quatre Coins (1950), Le Quadrille (1950), and Le Divertissment (1952). In 1952, Rivette began to write for Cahiers du cinéma with several other young critics who would form the core of the French New Wave: Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol. Rivette championed American directors of the 1940s and 1950s, specifically the work of Howard Hawks, John Ford, Nicholas Ray, and Fritz Lang. In 1958, he began to work on his first feature using the borrowed equipment and short ends of film stock. He finished Paris Nous Appartient two years later.

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Rouen - Aux Quatre Coins - Le Quadrille - Le Divertissment - Cahiers du cinéma - French New Wave - Eric Rohmer - Jean-Luc Godard - François Truffaut - Claude Chabrol - Howard Hawks - John Ford - Nicholas Ray - Fritz Lang - Paris Nous Appartient

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Celine and Julie Go Boating is perhaps Rivette's most famous and best loved work. His other important films also include Out 1, L'Amour fou, Paris Nous Appartient, and La Belle Noiseuse.

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Celine and Julie Go Boating - Paris Nous Appartient - La Belle Noiseuse

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