Still of Jane Birkin and Jacques Rivette in 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup (2009)
Caption: Still of Jane Birkin and Jacques Rivette in 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup (2009)
Director, Writer, Actor
Born: March 1, 1928
Star sign: Pisces
Known for: La belle noiseuse (1991), Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), The Gang of Four (1989)
Source: IMDB
Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer, was something of a late bloomer as a director. ...