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Lenght: 750 min.
Dir.: Jacques Rivette
With: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Berto, Bulle Ogier, Françoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Lonsdale,
Eric Rohmer, Pierre Baillot, Jean Bouise, Marcel Bonozet, Marc Chapiteau, Monique Clément, Christiane Corthay,
Sylvain Corthay, Michel Delahaye, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Louis Julien, Hermine Karaghueuze, Alain Libotl, Edwine Moatti,
Bernadette Onfroy, Karen Puig
Script: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
Cinematography: Pierre William-Glenn
Editor: Nicole Lubtchansky
Production: Stéphane Tchalgadjeff, Sunchilds Productions
[quote]Jonathan Rosenbaum:
Even more important, Paris Belongs to Us, the first feature of a film critic, offers a critical and philosophical commentary on the conspiracy thriller itself--a fascinating account of its allures and its dangers. In fact, Rivette's principal point about conspiracy theories is that they are alluring, to the audience as well as the characters. The satisfactions of coherence they offer are so compelling that even the potential or apparent victims of such conspiracies can't resist imagining them (a paranoid vision with ties to Kafka). But rather than simply prove his characters' conspiracy theories to be pure and simple hallucinations, Rivette performs the far more difficult task of keeping us perpetually uncertain about them: now we see them, now we don't. In fact we can never be certain whether they exist or not because our need for them is so palpable.
In Rivette's greatest work--the 750-minute serial Out 1: Noli me tangere (1970) and the 255-minute Out 1: Spectre (1972) he carved out of it--he turned this uncertainty into a formal principle, knotting together strands of conspiracy and narrative connection in the first half of each work, then systematically untying them in the second. An almost identical strategy is at work in the 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, a postmodernist work by the other great contemporary master of conspiracy fantasies, Thomas Pynchon, who has explored similar themes in V, The Crying of Lot 49, and Vineland (and whose latest novel, Mason & Dixon, is due out next month). The fact that Rivette and Pynchon arrived at the same artistic formula independently, on separate continents, at roughly the same time points to a profound shared historical experience--the shattering of the 60s counterculture's utopian dreams. A motto for both works might be taken from one of the narrator's musings in Gravity's Rainbow: "If there is something comforting--religious, if you want--about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long."
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Saul Austerlitz @SensesOfCinema:
His fifth film is the quasi-legendary Out One: Noli me tangere (1971). Close to thirteen hours in length, and shown in its entirety only once, it is essentially a lost work, replaced by the later, 255 minute version, Out One: Spectre (1972). Based on the story by Honore de Balzac, the film concerns 13 seemingly unconnected individuals living in Paris who form a secret society—or do they? Two loners, played by Juliet Berto and Jean-Pierre Leaud, join forces in an attempt to grasp the nature of the conspiracy, but ultimately fail. A parable about storytelling, and our human need for such unifying plots in the face of seemingly total disconnection, Out One: Spectre, while a difficult work, is tremendously important to Rivette's career as a whole. It offers mystery without answer, horror without pacification, nothingness without cease. Jonathan Rosenbaum, in describing the film, said, “Going further in self-annihilating narrative than any director before him, Rivette has burned up all the ground beneath his feet.” While it may have seemed that Rivette had nowhere to go after Out One, with Celine et Julie vont en bateau he found a way, and created one of the most astonishing films of post-New Wave era [...]
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Bad news first: NO ENGLISH SUBS. Sorry.
This is, as today, a quite difficult to see movie. Saul Austerlitz ironically wishes "good luck" to "Rivette completists" with finding it.
It's also one of my favourite movies, so I decided to go to the trouble of ripping my TV copy of it.
I'm not expecting lot of people on this so please if you're interested in it help me out: sharing it, and especially posting it
on other forums (especially french ones). Btw, Heimats may be longer in absolute terms, but this one is the longer movie
to be actually be shown in a single run in a theatre

All files will fit in a single DVD.
Episode One: De Lili à Thomas


Episode Two: De Thomas à Frédérique


Episode Three: De Frédérique à Sarah


Episode Four: De Sarah à Colin


Episode Five: De Colin à Pauline


Episode Six: De Pauline à Emilie


Episode Seven: D'Emilie à Lucie


Episode Eight: De Lucie à Marie
