Rivette’s masterpiece makes its long-overdue debut on Region 1 with an excellent A/V presentation and a bounty of superlative extras.
Women in Chains: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure
by Budd Wilkins
Robbe-Grillet’s films are as intricate and enigmatic as you might expect from the man who scripted Last Year at Marienbad.
The film’s peregrinating first half-hour establishes the odd, nearly incestuous, and unspoken relationship between the two titular women.
As reckless as love itself, the movie has its ups and downs, but you can’t help but be touched by it.
Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland.
Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them.