• Rivette’s fifth film- a 193 minute comedy shot in a grainy crude 16mm
  • Mixes the comic whimsy of Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier (they have an undeniable chemistry), mystery and magic, and an airy self-awareness (they are having some laughs watching a film (albeit not a good one))
  • Repeated titles “but in the next morning…”
  • There’s some debate on how much of the film is improvised
  • Sloppily edited, and I don’t think this is the equivalent of Godard’s jump cuts skipping the fluff in Breathless– this is Rivette with a very long form
  • Fragmented splice editing- sometimes a cutaway and sometimes a simple, black frame
  • Tangential
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1974