Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur

by Paul Grant for Senses of Cinema

For the average cinephile with a particular penchant for the artifacts of French cinema culture, Jacques Rivette – Le veilleur is a dense hub of filmic nonpareils: in a single film we are joined by the figures of Serge Daney, Claire Denis, Agnès Godard and Jacques Rivette, not to mention the appearances in film clips of Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Francois Stévenin. Yet alluring as the total sum of these figures are, the film’s singular value rests primarily on its bringing together of two exceedingly important French film personalities, Daney and Rivette.

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