Va Savoir
by Jacques Rivette
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Actor: Catherine Rouvel, H?l?ne de Fougerolles, Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Sergio CastellittoDirector: Jacques Rivette
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Va Savoir
Movie Review: An Enjoyable French Romantic Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
This French romantic comedy kept my interest mostly due to the twists of the various relationships and the overall fine performances by the cast. The plot/story was hard for me to follow until 30-40 minutes into the movie due to 2 factors: (1) the frequent changes between the scenes of the touring play and the off-stage lives of the main characters with the other members of the cast and (2) the very slow pace of the first part of the story. I found Jeanne Balibar's & Sergio Castellito's performances to be excellent, and that helped me to accept more easily the ambiguity of the story line. I liked the film so much that when I finished watching it once, I watched the first 30-40 minutes of it again so I could enjoy that part of the film more than I did on my first viewing. While that worked for me, I consider it to be a shortcoming of the film in general. I also think that I would have enjoyed the film more if it had been carefully edited to be about 30 minutes shorter.
Summary of Va Savoir
Jacques Rivette's exciting and delightful romantic comedy finds the French New Wave giant on familiar territory. Namely: theater as life, life as theater, and the junction where both fold together in an expansive universe of cinematic space and time. The director of such remarkably modernist classics as Celine and Julie Go Boating and La Belle Noiseuse here takes on a story of romantically entangled Parisian actors mounting a production of Luigi Pirandello's play As You Desire Me. As lovers hop in and out of ever-shifting relationships, the production comes together and opens to mixed success. The dynamics on and off the stage, between real life and theater, begin to fuse as Rivette breaks the narrative into disjointed pieces and lifts them to a higher plane of passionate resonance. An enjoyable ride and a tremendous accomplishment from a master filmmaker. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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