Rivette’s beguiling, minor-key manor mystery receives a solid Blu-ray release.
Un Ange Passe works on a model of long, uninterrupted takes on the faces of its characters, subdued and wistful.
Jean-Luc Godard’s still-revelatory film returns to North American home video as one of the best Blu-rays of the year.
The story, perhaps too hurried to do full justice to all the tensions constantly flying about, isn’t without its riches.
The film begins as a dryly limp satire of corporate culture and ends as cruel and unusual punishment.
The boredom-laced interlude with a Russian doll is itself an all-too-apt metaphor for the film.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
The Complete Jacques Rivette retrospective enters its fourth week at the Museum of the Moving Image.
A luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era.
It’s nice to have this superlatively nasty film on DVD in America, but what the hell is up with that corrected splice?
One can only dream that every DVD contained commentary tracks and featurettes as insightful as the ones included here.
The film is both a love-struck but tedious ode to cinephilia and a fascinating exploration of sex as a form of political resistance.