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"Paris Belongs to Us"
1959
Directed by Jacques Rivette
Shot on weekends, with
no money and no sets, with actors donating their time and Chabrol providing left-over film
stock, this film concerns a group of amateurs who come together in Paris to stage a
performance of Shakespeare's Pericles. But sexual and political tensions develop,
their composer dies, the producer kills himself and a fascist conspiracy seems to be
lurking in the background. The result of Rivette's two-year struggle is a work of total
originality and inventiveness, of amazing depth and independence of vision. French with
English subtitles.
124 minutes. |
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