FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Rivette

1928 - 2016

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Jacques Rivette (French: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Rivette has received more than 587,619 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jacques Rivette is the 175th most popular film director (down from 163rd in 2019), the 1,123rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,065th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Film Director.

Jacques Rivette is most famous for being a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Rivette ranks 175 out of 2,041. Before him are István Szabó, Max Ophüls, Guillermo del Toro, Roy Andersson, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Nagisa Oshima. After him are Gordon Parks, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jerzy Skolimowski, Don Siegel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Francesco Rosi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jacques Rivette ranks 60. Before him are Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Geert Hofstede, Li Peng, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Elliott Erwitt, and Carl Woese. After him are Hardy Krüger, Giampiero Boniperti, Gene Sharp, Joe Jackson, Musa al-Sadr, and Hans Modrow. Among people deceased in 2016, Jacques Rivette ranks 63. Before him are Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Reinhard Selten, Patricio Aylwin, Hilary Putnam, and Robert Vaughn. After him are Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Michel Tournier, Vesna Vulović, Sonia Rykiel, Marvin Minsky, and Walter Kohn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Rivette ranks 1,123 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis Phoebus of Navarre (1467), Albert Roussel (1869), Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (1202), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853). After him are René Lalique (1860), Jean de Joinville (1224), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Pierre Augereau (1757), Étienne Cabet (1788), and Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jacques Rivette ranks 25. Before him are Jacques Demy (1931), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Louis Malle (1932), and Abel Gance (1889). After him are Jean Vigo (1905), Claude Lanzmann (1925), Chris Marker (1921), Jacques Becker (1906), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), and Patrice Chéreau (1944).

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Filmography

La Belle Noiseuse
Director
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Sep 4o 19917.4 / 10
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Director
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.
Sep 18o 19746.7 / 10
The Nun
Director
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
May 6o 19667.2 / 10