Jacques Rivette, le veilleur

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (English: Jacques Rivette, the nightwatchman) is a 1990 French television documentary film directed by Claire Denis and Serge Daney. Chronicling the life of film critic and director Jacques Rivette, it is an episode of the long running French TV show Cinéma, de notre temps, which profiles the lives of film directors. It was directed by Denis, with Daney acting as the interviewer. It was made in 1990and first broadcast on Arte on 24 February 1994. It is broken up into two parts: Le Jour (70 minutes) and La Nuit (54 minutes).[1]

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
Written byClaire Denis
Serge Daney
Directed byClaire Denis
Serge Daney
StarringJacques Rivette
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
Production
ProducersJanine Bazin
André S. Labarthe
CinematographyAgnès Godard
Béatrice Mizrahi
EditorDominique Auvray
Running time125 minutes
Release
Original release1990 (1990)

Participants

Reception

Travis Mackenzie Hoover wrote that the documentary portrays Rivette with "lonerish tendencies" and as "a sort of transient with no home or country, wandering about or loitering in public space instead of staking out some personal terra firma."[2]

References
  1. Jacques Rivette, le veilleur Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine sur le site Images de la culture du Centre national de la cinématographie.
  2. Hoover, Travis Mackenzie (23 April 2007). "Rewriting Documentary: Claire Denis' Jacques Rivette, le veilleur". Slate magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2016.


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