(a mountain of Ramon could be the Pic St Loup)
premieres Friday Rivette's new film in Spain has been translated as The Last Summer. I do not like this title. It has nothing to do original with the suggestive title, 36 vues du Pic St. Loup, nor have anything to do with what happens in the story. Rather it should be called the first summer, as Kate, the protagonist, this is the first summer of a new life. Rivette is all the directors have emerged from the Nouvelle Vague, the lightest and at the same time the most intellectual. Facing the stiff language of Godard, Rivette shows a subtle lightness stories floating, against the apparent simplicity of the tales of Rohmer, Rivette influences their narratives an intellectual background. It is the perfect blend of both worlds. True to its actors, Jane Birkin Rivette uses the twenty years that rolled noiseuse La belle in these scenarios where he now is back. Birkin and its stylized silhouette of eternal teenager is key in this film. His face lined with beautiful wrinkles is the best scenery on the passage of time. Also returning to Sergio Castellitto, and returns to give the role of the prince that wakes the princess in a scenario dominated by the bright areas of the Languedoc Pic St Loup in the background. And here comes the mysterious and evocative title of the film. Much is said about the role of the circus in this film, the relationship with the theater, Rivette constant concern in all his films. But while the circus, with the imprint of a tragedy in its circular track and the empty stands, seems to be the vital center of the narrative, actually the real landscape on which history moves is what determines this incredible mountain seen from different points of view as if to draw a circle of 360 ยบ which contains a track imaginary where Vittorio is the master of ceremonies and Kate always on the trapeze wire. This film is a little gift on the card, an exquisite delicacy to be enjoyed with the pleasure of delicate things. At age 80, Rivette is still able to thrill with its images.
(I have not put any text in the other blog. Now I like to hang the article I wrote in 1992 on La belle noiseuse. I think it still applies).
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