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Why this pick
Rivette expands the same Parisian drift into an immense, teasing investigation: theatre groups, cryptic messages and possible conspiracies create a deliberately unstable line between coincidence and design.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Rivette expands the same Parisian drift into an immense, teasing investigation: theatre groups, cryptic messages and possible conspiracies create a deliberately unstable line between coincidence and design.
Why this pick
Its post-1968 Paris of apartments, cafés and restless intellectual conversation closely shares the bohemian social texture, emotional uncertainty and wandering observational pace of Rivette’s film.
Why this pick
A chilly, darkly comic political-paranoia puzzle about disconnected urban acquaintances, staged with an alert eye for hidden systems and the absurdity of clandestine plots.
Why this pick
For the appeal of elusive clues and unreliable accounts, this elegant, disorienting mystery turns memory and storytelling into a shifting maze without settling into easy answers.
Why this pick
Another playful Rivette Paris labyrinth, where two women follow an uncanny thread into a repeating story; it preserves the city’s chance encounters while becoming warmer and more fantastical.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens with the literature student Anne, who is reading Shakespeare when she hears sounds of distress in the next room. There she finds a Spanish girl who says her brother has just been killed by dark forces. Anne then meets up with her own brother Pierre, who takes her to a party held by some of his friends.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Philip Kaufman
Pierre Goupil

Hans Lucas