Paris nous appartient / Paris Belongs to Us (1961) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection
on November 12th, 2018 at 05:43
Though more amateurish than the other celebrated first features of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette's troubled and troubling 1960 account of Parisians in the late 50s remains the most intellectually and philosophically mature, and one of the most beautiful. The specter of world-wide conspiracy and impending apocalypse haunts the characters — a student, an expatriate American, members of a low-budget theater company rehearsing Pericles — as the student tries to recover a tape of guitar music by a deceased Spanish emigre who may have committed suicide. Few films have more effectively captured a period and milieu; Rivette evokes bohemian paranoia and sleepless nights in tiny one-room flats, along with the fragrant, youthful idealism conveyed by the film's title (which is countered by the opening epigraph from Charles Peguy: “Paris belongs to no one”).
BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:22:09 | 45.2 Gb + 7.56 Gb
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Francoise Prevost
Country: France
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