Who Knows?
2001 · Movie · 154 min. · France
Jacques Rivette's exciting and delightful romantic comedy finds the French New Wave giant on familiar territory. Namely: theater as life, life as theater, and the junction where both fold together in an expansive universe of cinematic space and time. The director of such remarkably modernist classics as Celine and Julie Go Boating and La Belle Noiseuse here takes on a story of romantically entangled Parisian actors mounting a production of Luigi Pirandello's play As You Desire Me. As lovers hop in and out of ever-shifting relationships, the production comes together and opens to mixed success. The dynamics on and off the stage, between real life and theater, begin to fuse as Rivette breaks the narrative into disjointed pieces and lifts them to a higher plane of passionate resonance. An enjoyable ride and a tremendous accomplishment from a master filmmaker. --Tom Keogh (from Amazon.com)
Direction Jacques Rivette
Cast Jeanne Balibar · Sergio Castellitto · Marianne Basler · Jacques Bonnaffé · Hélène de Fougerolles · Bruno Todeschini · Attilio Cucari · Bettina Kee · Luciana Castellucci · Emanuelle Vacca · Catherine Rouvel · Claude Berri
Screenplay Christine Laurent · Pascal Bonitzer · Jacques Rivette
Cinematography William Lubtchansky
Original title Va savoir
Also known as Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
7.0
513 votes (FilmAffinity)
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