Died the director Jacques Rivette – Daily News – Lisbon

The French director was 87 years.

The French Jacques Rivette, one of the emblematic filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague, died today, 87 years old, reports the journal Le Monde .

Born in 1926, the real name Pierre Louis Rivette, began his career as an assistant of renowned filmmakers such as Jean Renoir and Jacques Becker. Collaborated in the famous “Cahiers du Cinema”, which also pontificated François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, and was one of the fathers of N ouvelle Vague that marked the French cinema of 60s.

In his first feature film, Paris Nous appartient (1960), became clear a narrative complexity that would mark the future filmography of Rivette. This was followed by his most famous work:. La Religieuse (1966) a psychological drama about a young novice who is subject to torture and persecution in several convents, not abdicating but of their faith prohibited at the time his debut because of its deeply anticlerical content, only the intervention of Charles De Gaulle and the pressure of the intellectual milieu caused the film to be commercially exhibited the following year and was a box office success.

followed If other controversial works such as L’Amour Fou (1968), with four hours long, and surrealist comedy Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau (1974), over a librarian who is drawn into a world of fantasy

See a scene from L’Amour Fou :.

Throughout his career, Jacques Rivette received several awards, including in 1989 the Fipresci prize of the Berlin Festival with La Bande des Quatre and the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 1991 with La Belle Noiseuse , a film with Michel Picoli and Jane Birkin:

“Of all the masters of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928, in Rouen, in Normandy) is one that remained more faithful to a single theme, recurrent and obsessive: the forms of representation, the actors, the theater, his seduction and also all its leafy ambiguities, “wrote John Lopes in 2010, regarding the premiere of the last film Rivette, 36 Views of Mount Saint-Loup .