The gang of four / Cohen Media Group and Pierre Grise Productions present ; a film by Jacques Rivette ; produced by Martine Marignac ; screenplay by Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette ; dialogues by Pascal Bonitzer and Christine Laurent ; directed by Jacques Rivette ; a Franco-Swiss coproduction ; a Pierre Grise Productions (Paris), Limbo Films S.A. (Zurich), La Sept, Ministère de la Culture, Départment Fédéral de l'Intérieur Berne, Sofica Investimage, Canal+.
Laurence Cote, Fejria Deliba, Ines D'Almeida, Bernadette Gira, Nathalie Richard. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. Wide screen (1.85:1). "New 4K restoration."--Container. Bonus features: audio commentary track by Director Emeritus New York Film Festival & Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University Richard Peña; re-release trailer.
Summary:
Intimations of conspiracy hover over a group of actors in this underrated but decidedly major work from New Wave master and former Cahiers du Cinema editor-in-chief Jacques Rivette. Four young women share a house on the outskirts of Paris and study acting under a demanding teacher. Outside class, each is questioned by a mysterious investigator on the trail of a former roommate who may be involved in a criminal enterprise. Rivette₂s characteristic preoccupation with the intersections between daily life and performativity creep into every corner of this wholly engrossing mystery, which eventually expands beyond the confines of the film itself.
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