Out 1, noli me tangere (1971)

Jacques Rivette's grandest and boldest experiment to date is based on Balzac's L'Histore des Treize.

Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
Cast: Michele Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot, Marcel Bozonnet, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michael Lonsdale, Sylvain Corthay, Edwine Moatti, Bernadette Onfroy, Monique Clement, Juliet Berto, Gerard Martin, Gilette Barbier, Jean-Pierre Bastid, Urbain Dia Mokouri, Jacques Prayer, Michel Berto, Michel Delahaye, Bernard Eisenschitz, Pierre Cottrell, Andre Julien, Brigitte Rouan, Francoise Fabian, Eric Rohmer, Christian de Tilliere, Christiane Corthay, Patrick Hec, Bulle Ogier, Rene Biaggi

Out 1 is a movie that makes its overall impression on a cumulative, experiential level, amassing an ambiguous narrative comprised of documentary elements, intertextual quotes and references, and figures that are often more striking as actors than characters. The film can be seen as the “missing link” between the madness of Rivette’s L’Amour Fou and the playfulness of Celine and Julie Go Boating; Rivette expert Jonathan Rosenbaum has placed the film between the freedom of Jean Renoir and the fate of Fritz Lang.

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Out 1 is a very precise picture of post May ‘68 malaise – when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a great many other things. Two marginals who don’t know one another stumble into the remnants of a “secret society”: Thomas, a seemingly deaf-mute who all of a sudden begins to talk and Frederique, a con artist working the “short con” (stealing drinks and tricking men who think she’s a hooker out of their money). Meanwhile there are two theater groups rehearsing classic Greek dramas: Seven Against Thebes and Prometheus Bound. A member of the Moretti group passes a note to Leaud about The 13 which sends Leaud on a search for The 13. His search brings him eventually to Bulle Ogier’s shop in Les Halles
~ L’Angle du Hasard

"Out 1" is a very precise picture of post May '68 malaise - when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a great many other things. Two marginals who don't know one another stumble into the remnants of a "secret society": Colin, a seemingly deaf-mute who all of a sudden begins to talk and Frederique, a con artist working the "short con" (stealing drinks and tricking men who think she's a hooker out of their money). Meanwhile there are two theater groups rehearsing classic Greek dramas: "Seven Against Thebes" and "Prometheus Bound". A member of the Moretti group passes a note to Leaud about "The 13" which sends Leaud on a search for "The 13". His search brings him eventually to Bulle Ogier's shop in Les Halles "L'Angle du Hasard." Berto follows much the same path when she steals a cachet of letters from Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and tries to get money from their owners for their return. These twin activities reactivate "The 13" which had been dormant for years, revealing among other things that the two theater groups were once one.
~ filmfanatic99

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