
SummaryOn a winding mountain road, Vittorio gallantly helps Kate with her stalled car, and without a single word exchanged, speeds off. Later in town, he learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and ... Read More
Directed By:Jacques Rivette
36 vues du Pic Saint Loup
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90
At under 90 minutes, Around a Small Mountain is, by Mr. Rivette’s standards, a small vignette. It could have been —--and perhaps was -- part of something longer and more complex, but it stands as perfectly on its own as Pic St.-Loup, marvelous to contemplate and changing slightly every time you see it.
70
It's all slight enough to blow away, and rare enough to warrant seeing it before it does.
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This 2009 feature is as precious as it sounds but also irresistibly charming. If you’re a newcomer to the oeuvre of New Wave hero Jacques Rivette, this is a highly accessible port of entry.
50
If you want an introduction to the director's work, you're better off with "La Belle Noiseuse" (1991) and his masterpiece, "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (1974).
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Will interest Rivette admirers at fests and in the niche arena but will do nothing to broaden his appeal.
40
Never is the material excited into the kind of playful uncertainty that Rivette all but trademarked; the inertness of the performances robs the movie of spirit.
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Production Company:
- Pierre Grise Productions
- France 2 Cinéma
- Cinemaundici
- Rai Cinema
- Alien Produzioni
- Canal+
- France 2 (FR2)
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Région Languedoc-Roussillon
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
Release Date:Jul 9, 2010
Duration:1 h 24 m
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination




























