Out 1: Spectre

Mar 03 - Apr 13, 2007

Jacques Rivette, France, 1970, 16mm, 270 min.

Sponsored by Center for West European Studies at The Henry M. Jackson School at U of W and Seattle Alliance Francaise

For many cineastes, Rivette's OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE represents the Holy Grail. A nearly thirteen-hour adaptation of Balzac’s HISTOIRE DES TREIZE, the film centers on Rivette's central obsessions: conspiracy, community, theater, games and madness. When French television turned down the complete version, Rivette created a four-hour version, OUT 1: SPECTRE, which focuses more intensively on the intertwining tales of two rival theater companies, two eccentric outsiders and a mysterious cabal. Only slightly less rare than NOLI ME TANGERE, SPECTRE both doubles and refracts its parent film, offering a work totally different, yet still an epic. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, Pierre Baillot, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Françoise Fabian.

"What we are left with is not a digest of the long version, but another film having its own logic: closer to a puzzle or a crossword game, playing less on affectivity and more on rhymes or oppositions, ruptures or connections, caesuras or censorships." –Jacques Rivette

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