Rivette’s street musical looks gorgeous on Cohen’s excellent Blu-ray.
Lost Illusions leans heavily on voiceover narration that, for better or worse, draws attention to its novelistic mode of its storytelling.
This release of Rivette’s singular take on the story of Joan of Arc boasts an impeccable transfer of the new 4K restoration.
The film is further confirmation of Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately devastating ear and touch as a filmmaker.
Xavier Giannolli consistently glosses every sequence with a stagey kind of humor, and at the main character’s expense.
Mia Hansen-Løve suggests that the desire for fulfillment—of ideology through revolution, of true love through coupledom—is a cute illusion wasted on the young.
There’s a preciseness and polish to the way the characters are played in Rapt that makes the film resemble an expensive chess set.
Though not among Jacques Rivette great films, Around a Small Mountain shares a lot of qualities with the director’s best work.