Jacques Rivette Quotes

“In Secret défense, Rivette pays homage to his mentors, reinventing the criminal world of the policier to create a film where the conventional line between judge and assassin, hunter and hunted, victim and perpetrator is blurred;”
― Mary M. Wiles, Jacques Rivette

“in the earlier films (qtd. in Grassin and Médioni). It was, perhaps, for this reason that Rivette chose the vernacular epithet “la pucelle” (the Maid), for as Jean Collet notes, the name is associated with the Middle Ages, tying Jeanne to a historical trajectory, rather than to a cold, abstract ideal of sainthood (“Histoire” 152). In contrast to an austere judicial ritual, Rivette’s intent was to depict Jeanne in motion. Indeed, Rivette decided on the spur of the moment to play the role of Jeanne’s confessor at Vaucouleurs,”
― Mary M. Wiles, Jacques Rivette

“fragile, Jeanne la pucelle, Secret défense, and Va savoir”
― Mary M. Wiles, Jacques Rivette

“Française. Reenvisioning Genres: Haut bas”
― Mary M. Wiles, Jacques Rivette