Jacques Rivette (1928–2016)

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Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer, was something of a late bloomer as a director. ... See full bio »

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(age 87) in Paris, France

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Known For

The Beautiful Troublemaker
The Beautiful Troublemaker Director
(1991)
Who Knows?
Who Knows? Director
(2001)
The Gang of Four
The Gang of Four Director
(1989)
Paris Belongs to Us
Paris Belongs to Us Director
(1961)
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 2001 Who Knows?
 1995 Lumière and Company (Documentary) (segment "Jacques Rivette/Paris")
 1992 Divertimento
 1981 Paris Goes Away (Short)
 1976 Noroît
 1976 Duelle
 1973 Essai sur l'agression (Short)
 1971 Out 1
 1969 L'amour fou
 1966 The Nun
 1956 Fool's Mate (Short)
 1952 The Diversion (Short)
 1950 The Quadrille (Short)
 1949 At the Four Corners (Short)
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[on All About Eve (1950)] I still think that Eve is a failed Broadway piece and that it's not for nothing that he [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] left after the first scene of [Jean] Cocteau's Monstres sacrés (which by the way is not a good Cocteau film) because as I see it, the first scene is so powerful that one cannot write the ending or, if one does, one is doomed to churn out a scenario à la ... See more »

Trivia:

His main sources of inspiration for L'amour fou (1969) were Les idoles (1968) (which starred the same actress, Bulle Ogier) and Pirandello's play 'To Find Oneself', of which he had attended a stage performance with Delphine Seyrig. See more »

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Several of his movies feature a mostly female ensemble See more »

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Pisces
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