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My Take
Jacques Rivette is the French New Wave director I find myself returning to most, even if he's the least famous of the Cahiers du Cinema crowd. The French filmmaker made cinema like no one else, sprawling, hypnotic, gloriously patient films that bend time and reality. Celine and Julie Go Boating is pure magic, and the four-hour La Belle Noiseuse is the most quietly mesmerizing film about art and obsession I've ever seen. His legendary Out 1 runs nearly thirteen hours, a true test of devotion that rewards the faithful. He died in 2016, and I miss knowing there might be another impossible, beautiful Rivette film coming.
Overview
Jacques Rivette (French: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jacques Rivette
- Name (Japanese)
- ジャック・リヴェット
- Reading
- じゃっく・りゔぇっと
- Born
- March 1, 1928 – January 29, 2016
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Dragon
- Origin
- Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film critic / journalist / writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1962 Sutherland Trophy
- 1969 Sutherland Trophy
- 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Leopard of Honour
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.