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Haut bas fragile, dir. Jacques Rivette, France/Switzerland 1995, French with English subtitles, 170 min.
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Spectres: The Cinema of Jacques Rivette
Inspired by MGM’s low budget musicals of the 1950s, Rivette crafts an all-singing all-dancing sojourn through a sweltering Parisian summer in this captivating story of love, friendship and liberation.
The lives and adventures of three women intersect across the course of a summer, the upper-class Louise (Marianne Denicourt), recently awakened from a coma; Ninon (Nathalie Richard), a street-smart parcel courier; and Ida (Laurence Côte), a university librarian in search of her birth mother.
Rivette weaves the lives of these three women, and several typically mysterious plot threads, through the sun-dappled streets of Paris to delirious effect, crafting an effervescent musical comedy of depth and verve.
Inspired by MGM’s low budget musicals of the 1950s, Rivette crafts an all-singing all-dancing sojourn through a sweltering Parisian summer in this captivating story of love, friendship and liberation.
The lives and adventures of three women intersect across the course of a summer, the upper-class Louise (Marianne Denicourt), recently awakened from a coma; Ninon (Nathalie Richard), a street-smart parcel courier; and Ida (Laurence Côte), a university librarian in search of her birth mother.
Rivette weaves the lives of these three women, and several typically mysterious plot threads, through the sun-dappled streets of Paris to delirious effect, crafting an effervescent musical comedy of depth and verve.
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08:00 pm
Tue, 13 May 2025
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