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Friday August 9 at 7pm
Saturday August 10 at 9pm
Sunday August 11 at 4pm
Friday August 16 at 9pm
Jacques Rivette (B. 1928) is a filmmaker bathed in equal parts renown and obscurity. Truffaut wrote that the French New Wave began “thanks to Rivette,” but Rivette’s films are seen and discussed far less frequently than those of his compatriots. Perhaps due in part to his penchant for formal iconoclasm and ephemeral narrativity, much of his work has gone without U.S. distribution. A glowing exception is his most celebrated and well-known film, 1974’s Celine and Julie Go Boating, a three-hour-plus improvised fantasia of magical ritual, literary reference and whimsical role-playing. After spending the end of the ‘70s attempting to mount ever-more experimental projects, 1981’s Le Pont du Nord was considered Rivette’s “comeback” film, a standard-length feature revisiting the methods and themes of the longer Celine, as well as the notorious 13-hour Out 1 (1971). Despite its accessible shape and resonances with Rivette’s best-loved film, Le Pont du Nord is only now receiving its first U.S. theatrical release.
Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Jean-Francois Stevenin.
France 1981, 35mm, color, 129 min. French with English subtitles.
General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free.
Special event tickets (for in-person appearances) are $12. Tickets go on sale 45 minutes prior to show time. The HFA does not do advance ticket sales.
