Paris Belongs to Us (Rivette, 1961): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This 35mm presentation is the opening night of the Jacques Rivette season at ICA Cinema. Full details of the programme devoted to the director can be found here.
Chicago Reader review:
Though more amateurish than the other celebrated first features of the
French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s troubled and troubling 1960 account
of Parisians in the late 50s remains the most intellectually and
philosophically mature, and one of the most beautiful. The specter of
world-wide conspiracy and impending apocalypse haunts the characters—a
student, an expatriate American, members of a low-budget theater company
rehearsing Pericles—as the student tries to recover a tape of
guitar music by a deceased Spanish emigre who may have committed
suicide. Few films have more effectively captured a period and milieu;
Rivette evokes bohemian paranoia and sleepless nights in tiny one-room
flats, along with the fragrant, youthful idealism conveyed by the film’s
title (which is countered by the opening epigraph from Charles Peguy:
“Paris belongs to no one”).
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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