Friday, August 19, 2011
OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS
Today's film is Jaques Rivette's
36 vues du Pic Saint Loup / Around a Small Mountain (2009)
This very sweet, simple film about painful complex life situations was wonderful to watch.
A woman returns to the small circus from which she was banished by her father after a fatal accident occurs, she thinks, as her fault.
An Italian tourist meets her on the road, helps her with repairing her auto and decides to hang around to see what is going on.
They have a relationship, not a romance, and we see the small shabby but extremely amusing circus.
There is an improvisation feel to this. Rivette doles his scripts out page by page a half hour before shooting. It all works.
Rivette was a New Waver and is quite famous but not to me. His films in the Netflix queue are all "a long wait". Unusual, that.
So I have ordered all the ones that are available and will watch this one again, if, for nothing else, to see the clown act which keeps going throughout.
That means that this is a 5 out of Netflix5.
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