Jacques Rivette (born 1 March 1928) is a French film director.
With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he has a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin.
Rivette's films progress in unconventional ways...
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Jacques Rivette (born 1 March 1928) is a French film director.
With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he has a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin.
Rivette's films progress in unconventional ways - often following multiple plots that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisation. As a result, his films are often extremely long (the notable Out 1 lasts 13 hrs, although a 4½ hour cut was later produced) and many of his films are rarely seen.
Jacques Rivette was born in Rouen. In 1950, Rivette joined the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin, and began to write film criticism for the Gazette du Cinema, a small film journal. During this time, he made his first short films, Aux Quatre Coins (1950), Le...
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