Jacques Rivette March 1 1928 January 29 2016 was a French film director With JeanLuc Godard Jacques Rivette was one of the more experimental of the French New Wave nouvelle vague directors In common with many of his peers he had a background in film criticism where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin Rivettes films progress in unconventional waysoften following multiple plots that can be romantic mysterious and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisationand are often extremely long
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