Noroit
Mar 09, 2007
Jacques Rivette, France, 1976, 16mm, 145 min.
The second film in Rivette's projected four-part series SCENES FROM A PARALLEL LIFE, this enigmatic female pirate adventure with strains of mythology and avant-garde dance was described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as "the strangest by far of Rivette's films...[D]ays or weeks after you see this chilling conundrum of a movie, sounds and images may come back to haunt you."
"NOROÎT contains the most beautiful images and sounds of any Rivette film, and the fewest indications of what a spectator is meant to do with them, apart from look and listen." –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER