Despite its frustrating use of vague suspense and being overblown, Rivette's debut is sound both intellectually and philosophically.
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08/09/08
Paris Belongs to Us (1959)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: New Wave director Jacques Rivette began his career with this universal study of art, paranoia, politics ... and Paris. A young woman joins a freewheeling theatrical troupe rehearsing a... [More]
Starring: Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Francoise Prevost, Daniel Crohem
Director: Jacques Rivette
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Reviews for Paris Belongs to Us
1 - 9 (sorted by date)
The movie is a time capsule that is worth opening up to sniff the mood of its age.
11/12/07
All this is overblown, making it pretentious, slow-moving and fairly confused. It takes much too long to tell its over-complicated story.
11/12/07
Top CriticRivette was perhaps more of a prognosticator than he realized, anticipating the downfall of the very movement he was involved in before it had effectively begun.
11/18/06
This first feature by Jacques Rivette kindled the flame that became known as the French New Wave.
08/29/06
By no means this great filmmaker’s best, it’s still an auspicious beginning.
06/24/06
This uncertain first feature from Jacques Rivette from 1961 grew on me -- but it took a while.
05/06/06
A stimulating introduction to Rivette's playful and singular cinematic universe.
05/24/03
Jacques Rivette's troubled and troubling account of Parisians in the late 50s remains in some ways the most intellectually and philosophically mature of them as well as one of the most beautiful.
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