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The Gang of Four

Original title: La bande des quatre
  • 1989
  • 2h 40m
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6.8/10
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The Gang of Four (1989)
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A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.

  • Director
    • Jacques Rivette
  • Writers
    • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Christine Laurent
    • Jacques Rivette
  • Stars
    • Bulle Ogier
    • Benoît Régent
    • Fejria Deliba
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    6.8/10
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    • Director
      • Jacques Rivette
    • Writers
      • Pascal Bonitzer
      • Christine Laurent
      • Jacques Rivette
    • Stars
      • Bulle Ogier
      • Benoît Régent
      • Fejria Deliba
    • 5User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

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    The Gang of Four (1989)
    The Gang of Four (1989)
    Laurence Côte, Inês de Medeiros, Fejria Deliba, Bernadette Giraud, and Nathalie Richard in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Bulle Ogier and Nathalie Richard in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Laurence Côte and Inês de Medeiros in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Fejria Deliba and Nathalie Richard in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Bulle Ogier in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Laurence Côte, Inês de Medeiros, Fejria Deliba, and Nathalie Richard in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Laurence Côte, Inês de Medeiros, Fejria Deliba, Nathalie Richard, and Benoît Régent in The Gang of Four (1989)
    Laurence Côte, Inês de Medeiros, Fejria Deliba, Nathalie Richard, and Benoît Régent in The Gang of Four (1989)

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    Bulle Ogier
    Bulle Ogier
    • Constance
    Benoît Régent
    • Thomas
    Fejria Deliba
    • Anna
    Laurence Côte
    • Claude
    Bernadette Giraud
    • Joyce
    Inês de Medeiros
    • Lucia
    • (as Ines d'Almeida)
    Nathalie Richard
    Nathalie Richard
    • Cécile
    Pascale Salkin
    • Corinne
    Dominique Rousseau
    • Pauline
    Agnès Sourdillon
    • Jeanne
    Irina Dalle
    • Esther
    Caroline Gasser
    • Raphaële
    Irène Jacob
    Irène Jacob
    • Marine
    Florence Lannuzel
    • Louise
    Françoise Muxel
    • Valérie
    Karine Bayard
    • Sophie
    Marucha Bo
    • Une invitée
    Jean Le Scouarnec
    • Un photographe
    • Director
      • Jacques Rivette
    • Writers
      • Pascal Bonitzer
      • Christine Laurent
      • Jacques Rivette
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    • Trivia
      Lucia talks to the ghosts and recites some kind of spell in her native Portuguese language. It is inferred that she is a witch. This may be an implicit reference to Julio Cortazar's Rayuela, whose main character, La Maga (real name, Lucia), is also a witch, of Uruguayan descent. The image of both heroines is very similar, in addition to the name. And Rayuela is also set in Paris.
    • Connections
      Features A Brutal Game (1983)
    • Soundtracks
      Hor ch'el ciel e la terra
      Music by Claudio Monteverdi

      Solistes, choeur et orchestre de la Societa cameristica di Lugano

      Conducted by Edwin Loehrer

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    8/10
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    "Gang of Four" is hard to find words for. However I think it does address, in a detached and engaging manner, the themes of coming-of-age and community in the lives of several young women at an elite prestigious acting school?

    And gender seems to be the most specific definer of these themes. The teacher, Constance, at some point in her professional career, made the decision to exclude male students from her school. This in turn informs the lives of her young actors, who are each expected to play male role and female roles. Claude seems especially affected by this form of teaching and experiences much confusion in discerning men and in her own gender identity.

    Lucia, another of the four, has disgraced her family over her refusal to marry a pre-selected husband. Anna, whose actual name is Laura, takes this name to hold the memory of her missing sister close to her thoughts and actions. Cecile is not one of the gang of four (she left this residence house earlier) but she is having much of her identity shaped by a relationship to Antoine, who seems to be involved in some kind of dubious radical or criminal activities (this was never clear to me).

    And then there's Thomas who seems to be the cross between a mole and a eunuch, who slithers into the the female household, in his ostensible pursuit of the elusive Antoine. However, his unstated purpose seems to be to disrupt and control the individual lives and growing commonality of the four women. He manipulates one woman against another by seduction, lies, and feigned heroism. And with an unrelenting mocking presence for which he has no compunction he puts the full disruptive burden of his presence onto them If it's Constance's resolve to exerts a kind of pressure on her charge's youthful insecurity and dependency and steer them clear of false emotions, Thomas' resolve is to break their solidarity, not test it.

    Despite the drama on and off the stage, and all the motion, energy, body language, gestures, declamations, and tantrums, the general effect is both low key and even. No one stands out except perhaps Laurence Cote and Bulle Ogier as Claude and Constance. In the end, all the closures and variables in the lives depicted seem begin to co-exist. The young women come to inhabit their own scripts, and this in a world without and sometimes in spite of men.
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    • Release date
      • February 8, 1989 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Switzerland
    • Languages
      • French
      • Portuguese
    • Also known as
      • Gang of Four
    • Production companies
      • Pierre Grise Productions
      • Limbo Film AG
      • Investimage
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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