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Merry-Go-Round (1981)Director:Jacques Rivette |
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Léo
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Elisabeth
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Shirley
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Françoise Prévost | ... |
Renée Novick
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Maurice Garrel | ... |
Julius Danvers
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Michel Berto | ... |
Jérôme
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Dominique Erlanger | ... |
La scerétaire
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Frédéric Mitterrand | ... |
Le conseil
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Jean-François Stévenin | ... |
Le décorateur
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Pascale Dauman | ... |
L'infirmière
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Marc Labrousse | ... |
Le premier complice
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Jean Hernandez | ... |
Le deuxième complice
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Benjamin Legrand | ... |
Le chauffeur
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Florence Bernard | ... |
La femme du cimetière
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Country:
FranceRelease Date:
6 April 1983 (France) See more »Also Known As:
L'engrenage See more »Company Credits
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I didn't even know Jacques Rivette's name before a retrospective for him started at this year's Viennale. Now I heard a lot about Rivette from the media, and I managed to see one film - and I'm really sorry for not being able to see another one!
This movie, Merry-Go-Round, was a great pleasure for me to watch because, against all odds, it turned out to be - a crime film! A crime film though, that formally switched between extreme realism (Rivette seams to be famous for letting the actors improvise a lot) and absurd postmodernism - but, after all, a fine story about criminals. Only that the criminals were not typical gangsters: a young American (played by an Italian but as he did it convincingly, I accept it) and the child-like and wild and very sexy Maia Schneider. And many more. Oh, and two po-faced musicians who perform the soundtrack of the movie before our eyes, live, so to say.
And above all, this movie was very funny - you wouldn't expect such a funny film from a filmmaker who is weird enough to make a motion picture that has a running time of 13 hours.
I should mention that the girl with whom I saw the movie had a head-ache afterwards. So, be careful.