L’amour fou
In perhaps the most remarkable of Rivette’s many explorations of the intersection of life and art, rendered in a dazzling mixture of 35mm and 16mm film stocks, the relationship between theater director Sebastian (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) and his actress wife Claire (Bulle Ogier) implodes amid rehearsals for his production of Racine’s Andromaque.
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A stage work forms while a marriage collapses in one of the most remarkable of Jacques Rivette’s many explorations of the intersection of life and art. Shooting in a dazzling mixture of 35mm and 16mm film stocks, Rivette cuts between an experimental theater company’s rehearsals for a production of Racine’s Andromaque, a television crew shooting a documentary of the performance, and the imploding relationship of the director Sebastian (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) and his actress wife Claire (Bulle Ogier). Gradually, Sebastian and Claire pull each other deeper into a violent emotional vortex until, in the film’s startling, hour-long pièce de résistance, they lock themselves inside their apartment and embark on what the critic Tom Milne termed “a veritable orgy of passion which can be called neither love nor hate.” An NYFF6 selection. A Janus Films release. 4K restoration carried out by Les Films du Losange with the support of Les Films du Veilleur and the CNC under the supervision of Caroline Champetier AFC.
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