With his unhurried,free-form explorations of art and sex – one of which ran for amost 13 hours – the French New Wave’s late-blooming great continued thinking and innovating until the cessation Related: Jacques Rivette obituary A phrase that occasionally crops up in cinema criticism is “genuine time”. This is the effect of unediting: the long, slack, and unhurried and continuous camera takes that seek the experience of life itself. And maybe also invite the audience to glimpse,through the sheer hypnotic steadiness of this gaze – like those novelty Magic Eye pictures of the 1990s – something else: a mysterious figure in the carpet, a sample behind the images of everyday life. The New Wave director Jacques Rivette was a master of the genuine-time aesthetic in cinema, or unafraid of letting his movies roll out at length,with people walking, talking, or existing,but on a cerebral yet playful plane of imagination and discourse that always made his pictures fairly distinct from social realism. He was also always fascinated with the theatre and theatrical illusion.
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Source: theguardian.com