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Paris Belongs to Us: Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost, Daniel Crohem. Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957.
Ultimately released in 1961, the rich and mysterious Paris Belongs to Us offers some of the radical flavor that would define the movement, with a particularly Rivettian twist. The film follows a young literature student (Betty Schneider) who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twentysomethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance.
Gerard Lenz. Françoise Prévost. Terry Yordan. Daniel Crohem. Philip Kaufman. François Maistre. Pierre Goupil. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she ...
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Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend ...
Jun 11, 2013 · Paris Belongs to Us, for example, is based in an unsuccessful attempt to stage Shakespeare’s Pericles, hardly the Bard’s biggest box-office draw, presaging Rivette’s own future struggles to realize his projects, however visionary and unique. Yet the distinguished American critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, comparing the film with the first works of Chabrol, Truffaut, and Godard, calls it “the most intellectually and philosophically mature, and one of the most beautiful.”
Popular reviews. “Paris Belongs to Us,” the first full length work by Jacques Rivette, is an answer key to much of the director’s later filmography. It is, though, an answer written in a riddle of its own. “Paris” runs in the same early circle of Nouvelle Vague entries that verged somewhere between neorealism and melodrama.
Ultimately released in 1961, the rich and mysterious PARIS BELONGS TO US offers some of the radical flavor that would define the movement, with a particularly Rivettian twist. The film follows a young literature student (Betty Schneider) who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twentysomethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance.
