Watch Order
0 / 8 watchedEight key features in release order. A starter pick, not the full twenty nine film run.
About Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette made twenty nine features built on improvisation and long running times, so this guide picks eight key titles as a starting path. It opens with Paris Belongs to Us in 1961 and The Nun in 1966, then moves through L'Amour fou in 1969 and the thirteen hour Out 1 in 1971. Celine and Julie Go Boating in 1974 is the friendly entry point, a three hour fantasy about two women and a haunted house story.
The later run covers Le Pont du Nord in 1981, La Belle Noiseuse in 1991 about a painter and his model, and Va savoir in 2001. Watch in release order. The films do not connect, and the sequence shows his move from New Wave conspiracy puzzles to open games with actors, rooms and long takes.
Good to know
These are standalone films with no shared continuity, so there is no separate chronological order worth listing. Start with Celine and Julie Go Boating, then try La Belle Noiseuse or Le Pont du Nord before the very long works. Rivette died in 2016, so this run is complete. Out 1 runs about thirteen hours, and La Belle Noiseuse runs about four hours, so plan around the running times.
