Merry-Go-Round

In many ways this is a failed experiment. Rivette says it best: "...it really is a film with a first half-hour that's quite coherent, and then it searches for itself three times, three times searches for a way out...". But in searching for itself, the film generate moments that open up new possibilities for cinema as nonlinear and multilayered story telling, with the viewer untethered from the cinematic tropes and techniques that dull us. It's liberating, but liberation is not easy to embrace.