Jacques Rivette, le veilleur

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
Directed by Claire Denis
Serge Daney
Produced by Janine Bazin
André S. Labarthe
Written by Claire Denis
Serge Daney
Starring Jacques Rivette
Cinematography Agnès Godard
Béatrice Mizrahi
Edited by Dominique Auvray
Distributed by La Septembre Participation
Arte
Release dates
1990
Running time
125 minutes
Country France
Language French

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (Jacques Rivette, the nightwatchman) is a 1990 French TV documentary directed by Claire Denis and Serge Daney. Chronicling the life of film critic and director Jacques Rivette, it is an episode of the long running French TV show Cinéma, de notre temps, which profiles the lives of film directors. It was directed by Denis, with Daney acting as the interviewer. It was made in 1990and first broadcast on Arte on 24 February 1994. It is broken up into two parts: Le Jour (70 minutes) and La Nuit (54 minutes).[1]

Participants

Reception

Travis Mackenzie Hoover wrote that the documentary portrays Rivette with "lonerish tendencies" and as "a sort of transient with no home or country, wandering about or loitering in public space instead of staking out some personal terra firma."[2]

References

  1. Jacques Rivette, le veilleur sur le site Images de la culture du Centre national de la cinématographie.
  2. Hoover, Travis Mackenzie (23 April 2007). "Rewriting Documentary: Claire Denis’ Jacques Rivette, le veilleur". Slate magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

External links

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