Jacques Rivette Filmography

Born:: March 1, 1928 in Rouen, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Pierre Louis Rivette
Biography:: Jacques Rivette was one of the central figures in the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movement. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Rivette was considered the most experimental director of the movement, which his work exemplified. Like many other contemporaries, Rivette had a background in film...Read More

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The Duchess of Langeais

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis: Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, and Michel Piccoli star in director Jacques Rivette's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. The story begins as grieving French general Read More

2/22/08
Out 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's Seven Read More

2006
The Story of Marie and Julien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee, Olivier Cruveiller

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (The Story of Marie and Julien) stars Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a pair of ex-lovers who get back together after their lives change. Julien (Radziwilowicz) is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie (Béart) is a Read More

2003
Va Savoir

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles

Synopsis: A romantic comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette (La Belle Noiseuse), this film centers on three men and three women whose lives converge during the run of a play in Paris. The star of the play, Camille (Jeanne Balibar), is returning to Paris after leaving her stuffy boyfriend Read More

9/28/01
Secret Défense

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laure Marsac, Grégoire Colin, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: Innovative director Jacques Rivette created the memorable, multi-leveled classic Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), seemingly the inspiration for Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). Rivette generates a far-different mood in this French-Swiss-Italian murder mystery. Medical Read More

3/18/98
Haut Bas Fragile

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte, André Marcon

Synopsis: Three modern Parisian women form the basis of this epic musical comedy from famed director Jacques Rivette. The story is set in summer and follows the predestined path of each woman. Louise has just awoken from a five year coma and has been released from the hospital. She moves to a hotel where Read More

1995
Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

1995
Jeanne La Pucelle: Les Prisons

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Baptiste Roussillon, Didier Sauvegrain, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette directed this richly detailed six-hour drama based on the story of Joan of Arc. In Part one, "Les Batailles," Jeanne the Maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to Read More

1994
Jeanne La Pucelle: Les Batailles

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Baptiste Roussillon, Didier Sauvegrain, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette directed this richly detailed six-hour drama based on the story of Joan of Arc. In Part one, "Les Batailles," Jeanne the Maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to Read More

1994
La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age Read More

1991
La Belle Noiseuse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age Read More

1991
Jacques Rivette Le Veilleur

Actors: Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Jean Babilee

1990
The Gang of Four

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Benoit Regent, Laurence Côte, Fejria Deliba, Bernadette Giraud

Synopsis: No film critic of 1989 could write an assessment of the French-made Gang of Four (originally La Bande des Quatre) without using the phrase "Pirandellian" at one point or another. The story revolves around the hand-picked acting class of a famed director (Bulle Ogier) who works only with women. The Read More

1988
L'Amour Par Terre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo

Synopsis: The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspective, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised Read More

9/19/86
Wuthering Heights

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Olivier Cruveiller, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's version of Emily Bronte's novel might as well be called "Withering Heights" since only segments of the full plot are used, and the setting has been changed to France in the 1930s. The vengeful Heathcliff is now the vengeful Roch (Lucas Belvaux), and Cathy is the more Francophone Read More

1985
Merry-Go-Round

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro, Françoise Prevost, Maurice Garrel

1983
Le Pont du Nord

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Jean-François Stévenin, Pierre Clémenti, Steve Baes

Synopsis: In this unreal walk through the streets of Paris, Marie (Bulle Ogier), a woman convicted of robbing a bank is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste (Pascale Ogier) a young paranoid needing companionship, and the two team up for awhile. Marie's former boyfriend (Pierre Clementi) supplies Read More

1981
La Mémoire Courte

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Bulle Ogier, Jacques Rivette, Adrian Brine

Synopsis: In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She Read More

1979
Noroit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Geraldine Chaplin, Kika Markham

Synopsis: After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, she makes her move and challenges the Read More

1976
Duelle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, Elisabeth Wiener, Jean Babilee, Hermine Karagheuz, Nicole Garcia

Synopsis: This film chronicles the strange battle among a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or moon, who take the form of women and fight over a young man in bars, hotels, and mystical power-spots. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Out One Spectre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half hours long. It concerns a young man who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to beg for money and begins to get letters which make him think that a conspiracy, hitherto known Read More

1974
Essai Sur l'Agression

Crew: Director

1974
Celine and Julie Go Boating

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis: A story about story-telling, Jacques Rivette's self-referential classic centers on the fanciful world of two women literally lost in the stories they tell each other. Celine (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier) go from sharing a story about a haunted house to being part of a story about Read More

1974
Naissance et Mont de Promethee

Crew: Director

1974
Out 1: Noli Me Tangere

Crew: Director

Actors: Juliet Berto, Pierre Baillot, Michel Berto, Jean Bouise

1972
L'Amour Fou

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, André S. Labarthe, Denis Berry

Synopsis: A director and his actress lover rehearse for a tragic play. Complications set in when their life at home affects their performances at work. The director professes his love for the woman while seeking comfort in the arms of other women in the stage production. The sensitive woman tries to Read More

1968
La Religieuse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Bergé, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: This critically acclaimed moral drama is taken from a book written in 1760 by Denis Diderot. Suzanne (Anna Karina) is an intelligent, freedom-loving woman who is forced into a convent against her will. The fact that she was sired by a man who is not her mother's husband -- and that a suitable Read More

1966
Jean Renoir, le Patron

Crew: Director

1966
Paris Nous Appartient

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Françoise Prevost, François Maistre

Synopsis: Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister Read More

1960
Le Coup du Berger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Doat, Jean-Claude Brialy

1956
Le Divertissement

Crew: Director

1952
Le Quadrille

Crew: Director

1950
Aux Quatre Coins

Crew: Director

1949