Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1974 • France
Starring Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” meets the freewheeling invention of French New Wave gamesman Jacques Rivette in this giddy surrealist fantasia. When magician Céline (Juliet Berto) meets librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier), it’s not long before they are launched through the looking glass and straight into a labyrinthine comic adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder mystery as, all the while, the line between illusion and reality grows ever fainter.
Recorded in 2017, this commentary features film scholar Adrian Martin.
Clair Denis made this portrait of Jacques Rivette, in which Rivette is interviewed on the streets of Paris by film critic Serge Daney, in two parts. In the first, LE JOUR, filmed during the day, Rivette discusses the history of the French New Wave. Both parts were originally broadcast on French t...
Clair Denis made this portrait of Jacques Rivette, in which Rivette is interviewed on the streets of Paris by film critic Serge Daney, in two parts. In the second part, nighttime sequence, LA NUIT, Rivette discusses his own films. Both parts were originally broadcast on French television on Febru...
