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Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo ... see more see more... , Laszlo Szabo , Sandra Montaigu , Isabelle Linnartz

The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspecti... read more read more...ve, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised by a group of people. It turns out that the people are the audience watching a play performed in a private home. Among the spectators is Clément (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) a director who invites two actresses (Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin) to his home for the following Saturday, to work on a performance. Clément was having an affair with Béatrice (Isabelle Linnartz) who has apparently disappeared. A magician named Paul (André Dussolier) is his current lover and lives in Clément's home. After the actresses arrive, they find themselves influenced by Paul's magic and start to see their future, while the story they are enacting stays fairly close to Clément's own life. After many rehearsals over one week's time, the play is performed while actual changes happen in the corresponding characters in Clément's life -- until the play within a play ends in an interesting, controversial, yet logical manner. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 9 min.

Directed by: Jacques Rivette

Release Date: September 19, 1986

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  • columbiatch
    July 26, 2009
    columbiatch
    Similar to Va Savoir in some ways, this explores the creative process as well as how theater and life become one through actors rehearsing for a play. The setting is classic Rivette, almost too obvious - a strange mansion with many secrets. While this deals with Rivette's themes ... read moremore rigorously than Va Savoir and might be his most self-reflexive and personal film, this doesn't work very well in a more conventional narrative sense. The male characters are among the least interesting and the chemistry between Birkin and Chaplin doesn't approach the level of spontanety of Berto/Labourier or Berto/Ogier.

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Dennis Schwartz
May 11, 2012
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Even when playful, Rivette is a drag. Full Review

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