L'Amour fou

Rivette does some interesting things, but they're not THAT interesting. On the other hand, he wastes a lot of the viewer's time with some boring stuff, but it's not THAT boring. As in Out 1, the most egregious material concerns a theatrical troupe rehearsing. It serves an obvious narrative function, but it's still pretty dull stuff. It takes an awfully long time for the film to start coming into focus. I'm undecided at to whether or not Rivette needs all that seemingly excessive build-up.

90 minutes of story and character depth stretched into 4 hours. It's an entirely dull experience but Rivette uses some interesting techniques to give it the form of a documentary.

Disconcertingly complex. This'll take a while to digest.

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Sad, funny, boring, electric, and French people smoking/drinking swirling together in a beautiful mix. The switching between 16 and 35 was a wonderful bit of filmmaking.

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Amor louco estreava há 55 anos na França. Depois de acabar de ler essa resenha: https://boxd.it/kMAPF não tenho nada pra falar não, a resenha pra acabar com todas as resenhas sobre esse filme no Letterboxd. MKO (mas tem a mesma cópia no YouTube também).

Our Daily Free Stream: Jacques Rivette - L'Amour Fou (engl. subt.). Ein fast unbekannter Film von Jacques Rivette - jetzt zum Entdecken! Immer war es so, dass Rivette sich mit seinen Filmen am liebsten den Künsten widmete. Nicht nur, dass seine Werke ausserhalb dieser Welt der Cinephilen kaum Anklang fanden, er blieb auch mit seinen Sujets diesem Kreis treu.(...)

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This reminded me in many ways of Out 1, and kind of made me think of it as a dry run for that, but I pretty much hated this and thought Out 1 was okay. This does most of the stuff I didn't like about Out 1 without the redeeming factors. It was mostly boring for me, and also very long. It just desperately needs an editor.

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