Jacques Rivette

Activities : Actor, Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Narrator, Participant
Date of Birth : 01/03/1928
Represented by : VMA
Agent : Isabelle de la Patellière

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Jacques Rivette

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Jacques Rivette - Blind Love / Mad Love

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (37 films)

Around a Small Mountain - Poster - France

Around a Small Mountain (2009)

Director : Jacques Rivette
Actors : Jane Birkin, Julie-Marie Parmentier, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé, Hélène de Vallombreuse...
Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : On the eve of the start of the summer tour, the owner and founder of a small circus dies suddenly. The troupe, in an attempt to save the season, decides to call upon the owner's eldest daughter, Kate. Chance puts an Italian on her...

The Duchess of Langeais / Don't Touch the Axe (2006)

Director : Jacques Rivette
Actors : Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Anne Cantineau...
Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Armand de Montriveau, a French general, arrives on a Spanish island during the French expedition to re-establish Ferdinand VII’s authority. For five years he’s been searching for a woman, who disappeared without a trace and with...

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

Director : Jacques Rivette
Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee, Olivier Cruveiller...
Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Julien, 40, watchmaker, is a kind of loser with destructive tendencies. He’s decided to blackmail Madame X, a rich and pretty woman. Although he knows all about her shady deals involving antique objects, he’s unaware of her most...

Who Knows (2001)

Director : Jacques Rivette
Actors : Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini...
Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : An Italian theater company on tour in Europe, settles in Paris to perform “As You Desire Me” by Luigi Pirandello. Camille, the company’s lead actress, also happens to be its director’s girlfriend. She is the only French member of...

Secret Defense (1998)

Director : Jacques Rivette
Actors : Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Laure Marsac, Françoise Fabian...
Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Friday, May 9th, around 10 p.m. Working late at the lab, Sylvie surprises her kid brother, Paul, with a gun in his hand. He tells her he has just discovered the real reasons for their father’s death. He didn’t commit suicide, as...

Lumière and Company (1995)

Directors : Sarah Moon, Michael Haneke, Cédric Klapisch, Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras ...
Actors : Alessandra Martines, Ticky Holgado, Antoine Duléry, Charles Gérard, Pascal Duquenne
Associate production company : Igeldo Kommunikazioa, Soren staermose ab, Cinétévé
Genres : Experimental
Synopsis : A series of 40 one minute-long Lumière Films by today's greatest film makers, using, 100 years later, the same film equipment and stock the Lumière Brothers developed in 1895. What surprises will modern minds bring to this...

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Festival Selections (1)

French Film Festival in Japan - 2008

Type : Unifrance festival
Location : Japan

Delegations (4)

	Venice International Film Festival - 2009 Director : Around a Small Mountain Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Italy
	International Film Festival of Berlin - 2007 Director : The Duchess of Langeais / Don't Touch the Axe Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Germany
	San Sebastian International Film Festival - 2003 The Story of Marie and Julien Type : Feature film festival Location : Spain
	New York Film Festival - 2001 Director : Who Knows Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : United States