FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE! Jacques Rivette - Paris Is Ours (eng. subt.) 

Who was actually the very first in the Nouvelle Vague? If you believe the production notes of Rivette's Paris Is Ours, you will learn: it was Rivette, because he began shooting his debut as early as 1957. Nevertheless, Paris Is Ours was not a success at the box office, because Rivette always takes some getting used to. What other director can boast a thirteen-hour feature film? And even Rivette's more accessible works tend to be six hours long. Paris Is Ours runs only 141 minutes. The film revolves around the death of a character we never meet. His name is Juan, he's a guitarist from Franco's Spain. An exile. Now the young student Anne (Betty Schneider) is trying to find out the reasons for Juan's death. Did Juan die by his own hand or was he the victim of a political plot? Now Anne is looking for a theatre recording that Juan made before his death to present his production of Shakespeare's "Pericles" to a theatre director. Anyone who has seen many Rivette films knows that theatre rehearsals are a favourite motif with him. Anne is usually accompanied. Among them her brother and another exile, this time one from McCarthy's America. They all chain-smoke and tend towards cynicism, nihilism and paranoia. That's what Paris Is Ours is about: precisely this world view. (For us geeks, of course, it's also about the cameos by Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Demy). It may be that Rivette came to the cinema a little late, but he was instrumental in developing the LOOK of the Nouvelle Vague!