Watched Va savoir last night. Lots of fun. Jacques Rivette is still pushing out films at 70-something. While I've only seen Céline et Julie vont en bateau and La Belle noiseuse, I think I have a feel for what kinds of flicks Rivette makes: great ones! While too long for the post-VCR, ADD crowd, I find his movies, if anything, too short. Character driven in a vague sort of way, without too much psychological baggage, literate and humorous.

He has six characters, a play en abyme, and shelves full of books all vying for your attention. The dialog is in Italian (the play is Luigi Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi) and French. Love, theft, 18th century unpublished Goldoni plays, love triangles, cheating, Heidegger, fidelity, duelling, and no easy explanations. There's at least two PhD dissertations: one in philosophy and the other on Roman and Greek fibulas (ancient safety pins) and their connection to American and French cinema. It's on DVD, and I say "rent it."