FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jacques Rivette - Haut Bas Fragile 

Jacques Rivette's films often revolve around secrets and mysteries. About conspiracies and secret societies. A foreshadowing of what may come - where life is like a maze. Ultimately, it leads us to places we don't understand. This is roughly how Haut Bas Fragile - Beware Fragile works. Three women are at the centre. In the lives of these three women, the past plays an important role and they are surrounded by secrets... Louise (Marianne Denicourt) woke up from a coma after five years. Now she wants to start a new life in which neither her family nor her boyfriend play a role. Ida (Laurence Côte) was adopted and is now hell-bent on finding her biological parents. Ninon (Nathalie Richard) is fleeing a life of violence - from her ex-boyfriend who stabbed a man to death. The paths of these three women cross, guided by chance. Basically, all three are trying to free themselves from the past. And that's not easy in a Rivette film, because normally Rivette's characters act in cycles, are doomed to repetition. Of course, in Haute Bas Fragile there is also a secret society that meets in a hideout to dare a game of life and death. Is there a conspiracy or is it all smoke and mirrors? Charming is the idea that these women do open up a perspective for the future instead of remaining stuck in their cycle: the seductive power of dance! Because tragedy doesn't have to be a permanent state and the story of life is what we make of it. And what is more beautiful than living silly and exuberant?