Duelle

GOD this movie is incredible! What a masterpiece! I love it. It's so utterly inventive in every way possible that we forget that this is once again one of Rivette's worlds of masochistic torture. The Queen of the Sun and the Queen of the Moon descend down to Earth and…

Neil Bahadur

We could all benefit from more Rivette in our lives. (Physical media note:  The good news is that the blu-ray, included in Arrow Academy’s Jacques Rivette Collection boxset, is stunning — saturated colors, deep blacks, a completely film-like appearance.  The bad news is…

carrieandtracy

How to describe such a towering work on first viewing? This is composition, this is sound, this is lighting, this is color, this is movement. God bless Jacques Rivette. He understands that everything is NOT beautiful, and to think so would be naive and stupid. However,…

Neil Bahadur

watched the first half during the day and the second half at night, just as rivette intended

KYK

For me, simply one of The Truly Great Movies. A work that starts out as ordinary and slowly inundates us into first a movie world and then a fantasy world, all while using documentary technique to keep us centered in the streets of Paris. The battle for the Fate of Earth…

Peter Labuza

The divine refuses to be known, but still insists on being admired in Jacques Rievette’s “Duelle.”  There is a suspension of belief that is required in faith. Whether this is the displacement of logical order, or an investment of supreme trust in a higher power can depend…

theriverjordan

So even though it's been clear that I can’t get into Rivette’s whole vibe, I still have a few of his movies on my watchlist, and as the madman that I am, I’m expecting a different result. And it seems like it finally paid off. Now, the film seemed quite tonally uneven,…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The blade, the wand, the cup, the salamander. The moon. Archetypal Blonde and Archetypal Brunette from film noir (and elsewhere in popculture/highculture at least as far as the Renaissance) are traced back to their primordial form -- Sun Goddess and Moon Goddess (Celtic…

Lencho of the Apes

movie about how since the dawn of time, women are in secret fights with each other, and men are always doing parkour. I was gonna write something like, "there should be more films where everything hinges on a giant magical stone," and then I realized that's a solid…

fran hoepfner