Critic Reviews

• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

  While the actors are responsible for much of the creativity, these are the director's most obsessive works: every shot and scene is set up more as a question than an answer, hinging on the adventure and mystery of not knowing what will happen next.

• J. Hoberman, Village Voice

  Rivette's last shot is an extraordinary throwaway that provoked spontaneous applause for being at once completely ordinary, totally unexpected, and positively diabolical in shifting the meaning of the entire previous 12 1/2 hours.

• Robert Koehler, Variety

  A monumental if cheeky culmination of the French New Wave.

• Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

  Rivette's transformative "pure hazard," couched in the bare image that holds a thousand enigmas

• Doug Cummings, Filmjourney

  Out 1 has been accurately described as a "film-fleuve," and though its current may be slow, its volume is massive; one could easily follow any one of its many tributaries to vast thematic territory.

• George Wu, culturevulture.net

  What one can say after the experience is that there is nothing else quite like it in all of cinema.

• Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine

  An extended anthropological discourse, a dissection of the dashed dreams and hopes of a counterculture destroying itself from within due to a misunderstood threat from without.

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