{"id":210,"date":"2007-02-11T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/210"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:39:26","slug":"paris-belongs-to-us-1961-jacques-rivette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/210","title":{"rendered":"Paris Belongs To Us (1961, Jacques Rivette)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rivette was working on this from 1957-1960. In ’57, Chris Marker did Letter From Siberia<\/a><\/em>. In ’58 we had Le Beau Serge<\/em>, Elevator to the Gallows<\/em> and a couple shorts. ’59 brought Pickpocket<\/a><\/em>, Hiroshima Mon Amour<\/a><\/em> and The 400 Blows<\/a><\/em>, then Breathless<\/a><\/em> and Shoot the Piano Player<\/a><\/em> were in 1960. So Rivette might have started everything, in a sense, but by the time he’d made his statement public (in ’61, along with Cleo From 5 to 7<\/a><\/em> and Last Year at Marienbad<\/a><\/em>), the whole “new wave” was in full swing in the theaters.<\/p>\n

Betty Schneider (of Mon Oncle<\/em>) is young innocent Anne with brother Pierre (Francois Maistre, later of a buncha Bunuel films). She meets theater director Gerard (Giani Esposito of French Cancan<\/a><\/em>), paranoid American Philip (Daniel Crohem) and mystery woman Terry (Francoise Prevost of Rivette’s 1981 Merry-go-round<\/a><\/em>). Movie gets more disturbed and paranoid (as well as loose and rambling) as it progresses, ending with the deaths of a buncha characters. Somewhat like The Dreamers<\/em>. Incidentally, “Paris Belongs To Us” would’ve been a better title for that movie.<\/p>\n

Interesting parallels with Out 1<\/a><\/em>, both being about theater groups and city-wide conspiracies. In this one, we never find out if the conspiracy even exists, and in Out 1<\/em>, the group does exist and is partially uncovered, but the group has no sinister purpose, never even did anything together and have been long dormant.<\/p>\n

Much is made of the cameos by Godard, Chabrol, Rivette and Demy in the promo material, but I can’t say I noticed any of those.<\/p>\n

Michael Rowin in Reverse Shot calls it “a fascinating disappointment”.<\/p>\n

the calm:<\/em>
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the storm:<\/em>
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Rivette was working on this from 1957-1960. In ’57, Chris Marker did Letter From Siberia. In ’58 we had Le Beau Serge, Elevator to the Gallows and a couple shorts. ’59 brought Pickpocket, Hiroshima Mon Amour and The 400 Blows, then Breathless and Shoot the Piano Player were in 1960. So Rivette might have started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,354,34,9,611,1308],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-conspiracy","tag-france","tag-jacques-rivette","tag-paranoia","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}