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Jacques Rivette (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; born 1 March 1928) is a French film director. His best-known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1. He was a member of the French New Wave, a group that included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, who all began their careers as film critics at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and gained international recognition as film directors in the early 1960s. As a film critic, he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such... MORE

Jacques Rivette (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; born 1 March 1928) is a French film director. His best-known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1. He was a member of the French New Wave, a group that included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, who all began their careers as film critics at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and gained international recognition as film directors in the early 1960s. As a film critic, he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Tashlin. As a film director, he is known for his long, complex plots that examine the clash between fiction and reality. Film critic Raphaël Bassan, has said that Rivette is "the only filmmaker of the ex-New Wave — along with Godard — who keeps making truly personal work on the level of film, while his colleagues from the early days have long rejoined the ranks of the qualité française (mainstream French films)" Francois Truffaut said that the French New Wave happened because of Rivette, and Marc Chevrie has called Rivette "vaguely legendary but LESS