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OUT 1 (FIRST HALF)
1971
Director
Jacques Rivette
Starring
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Michael Lonsdale
Bernadette Lafont
Bulle Ogier
Françoise Fabian
Juliet Berto
Runtime
386 minutes
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Paris, April 13th 1970. Two theater groups each rehearse avant-garde adaptations of plays by Aeschylus. A young deaf-mute begs for change in cafés while playing the harmonica. A young woman seduces men in order to rob them. As a conspiracy develops, the protagonists stories start to intertwine...
Jacques Rivette, co-founder of the French New Wave, has always been that group's most free-spirited and aesthetically radical member. This is very much on display in OUT 1, his magnum opus, in which a whimsical young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) receives anonymous notes that put him on the trail of a mysterious group of people who might or might not be conspirators.
Based on an utterly unique concept that includes the absence of a script and nods to Honoré de Balzac and Lewis Carroll, OUT 1 is a sprawling giant of a film and an enriching and timeless reference. One way to understand this mammoth work is as a product of the dawning realization, at the beginning of the 1970s, that the utopian hopes of the previous decade were not going to be realized. Always one to express himself playfully and indirectly, Rivette builds this sprawling epic around the vague notion of a vast conspiracy that may control everything or nothing.
Much of the film unfolds almost like a board game: the moves of various characters were set up to produce episodic encounters whose exact content was often not determined in advance. What gradually emerges is a filmic labyrinth whose cumulative force is received not so much as a unified narrative or accrued meaning, but rather as a vast reflection on the seemingly aleatory nature of modern life and cinema’s potential to intersect with it in a ludic fashion. As Rivette himself put it, "'play', in all senses of the word, was the only idea."
The Beacon Cinema will present the entirety of OUT 1 over the course of two days, February 7th and 8th. Don't miss your chance to experience this incomparable masterpiece in the cinema!
Jacques Rivette, co-founder of the French New Wave, has always been that group's most free-spirited and aesthetically radical member. This is very much on display in OUT 1, his magnum opus, in which a whimsical young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) receives anonymous notes that put him on the trail of a mysterious group of people who might or might not be conspirators.
Based on an utterly unique concept that includes the absence of a script and nods to Honoré de Balzac and Lewis Carroll, OUT 1 is a sprawling giant of a film and an enriching and timeless reference. One way to understand this mammoth work is as a product of the dawning realization, at the beginning of the 1970s, that the utopian hopes of the previous decade were not going to be realized. Always one to express himself playfully and indirectly, Rivette builds this sprawling epic around the vague notion of a vast conspiracy that may control everything or nothing.
Much of the film unfolds almost like a board game: the moves of various characters were set up to produce episodic encounters whose exact content was often not determined in advance. What gradually emerges is a filmic labyrinth whose cumulative force is received not so much as a unified narrative or accrued meaning, but rather as a vast reflection on the seemingly aleatory nature of modern life and cinema’s potential to intersect with it in a ludic fashion. As Rivette himself put it, "'play', in all senses of the word, was the only idea."
The Beacon Cinema will present the entirety of OUT 1 over the course of two days, February 7th and 8th. Don't miss your chance to experience this incomparable masterpiece in the cinema!