Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with.

Well, Slown, and you're listening to the Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the most powerful French new wave director.

Eric Romer, no.

Franz Lat Truffaut, no.

Jean-A-Ga-Gadard, no! Uh,arete Chabrelle, no! It's the other guy,

Jacques Rivette. I first heard about Jacques Rivet when I was in, I think, grade 11 or 12,

because Cinemattock, Ontario was doing a complete Jacques Revette retrospective at the time.

I'd never heard of them before. A complete retrospective. They used to do that. It was incredible. God, I miss the art gallery where they still have a cinema that sits unused. We should take it over. I know. We've said this many a times before. If you're listening, whoever owns that space, give it to us. We'll do a great job. We can guarantee you at least three people in the audience. Yeah, we'll guarantee you whatever you probably did before. Yeah, yeah. You don't need to make money.

You don't need to make money. It's an empty right now. Yeah, just let us program it. Anyway, they used to print these beautiful brochures. I love those. I've bought them in used bookstores when I found them.

With great writing and stuff. And I just remember reading in that the joccurvette, it had words to the effect of one of the least commercial of the French New Wave. And there I am in grade 11 or 12 thinking, wow, that doesn't sound very commercial at all. The French New Wave. And so I remember going to see the nun, La Rale Les Jules. And it was a bit of a tough set.

Yeah.

I'm not going to deny.

It's 130 minutes long.

It's a depressing story.

I remember respecting the movie.

You know, it's obviously a well-made movie and sort of thinking, okay.

And then I didn't return to him for a long time.

I think Jacques Rivette is very attractive to young cinefiles when you learn about him, maybe more when we

were younger than now.

Because back in the day, the whole mystique around him was that his movies are impossibly

long.

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