Rivette

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas's hidden personality?

Contient deux films de Jacques Rivette : - NOROIT (1976) : Morag se rend au chateau de Giulia, fille du soleil, pour venger son frère, tué par des amis de celle-ci. - DUELLE (1976) : Deux magiciennes immortelles, Leni et Viva, s'affrontent dans Paris. L'une craint la nuit, l'autre la lumière.

Cahiers du Cinema is famous as the critical journal of the French "New Wave." Fran?ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and many other major directors wrote for it in the 1950s and '60s. Its early years have understandably received a lot of attention, but, as Nick Browne points out in his introduction to this volume, Cahiers du Cinema published tremendously important articles even after its legendary heyday. The pieces reprinted here, most of them translated into English for the first time, document the changes in French film theory and criticism after the events of May 1968. Between 1969 and 1972, Cahiers du Cinema became a radical Marxist journal. Its contributors interpreted the political ideology of films and filmmaking even as they continued to debate the work of major international directors. Included here are theoretical pieces as well as fresh assessments of films by Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg, Luchino Visconti, George Cukor, and many others.

Dans la constellation des passionnés de cinéma devenus metteurs en scène, Bertrand Tavernier se distingue par la persistance d'une cinéphilie qui ne l'aveugle pas et un désir de comprendre les réalités du monde, passant de la fiction au documentaire avec une égale curiosité qui le rend inclassable…

A philosopher and a culture critic who chose to work in the film medium, Jean-Luc Godard appeared on the international scene both as a writer for the Cahiers du Cinema as well as a leading representative of the French New Wave movement. His unconventional approach to everything from film structure to editing and sound, infuses his films with a playful iconoclasm and an idiosyncratic identity. His intellectual preoccupations are often centered around political themes (capitalism, democracy), sociology (the conventions, conformism and Faustian aspects of modernity), existentialism (human identity) etc. For over 45 years, Godard's metalinguistic experimentation with the elements of cinema, from jump-cuts to whispered voice-overs, has established him as one of the most persistently probing, thought-provoking and influential film-makers in history.

Pour tous les cinéphiles, Serge Daney demeure une figure nécessaire, scruteur d'images éclairé et plume inoubliable. Dans un entretien accordé à Régis Debray en 1992, quelques mois avant de disparaître, le critique fait défiler sa vie comme un film. Durant trois heures d'entretiens, il lègue un demi siècle de réflexions et d'expériences originales consacrées aux images. Trois heures de pensée en mouvement, trois heures d'une parole vivante, unique et éloquente.

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his 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. The now starting creative process changes life for everyone. It is a struggle for truth, life and sense, and the question where the limits of arts are or whether art is limitless.

Au XVIIIe siècle, Suzanne Simonin est cloîtrée contre son gré dans un couvent par ses parents qui la destinent à la vie conventuelle sans qu'elle en ait la vocation. Elle trouve un peu de réconfort auprès de la Mère supérieure, mais celle-ci meurt peu après, et est remplacée par une femme sadique qui ne cesse de brimer Suzanne. La jeune femme obtient l'autorisation de changer de couvent, mais reste toujours aussi déterminée à sortir.