A meditative anti-thriller-cum-Electra adaptation that broods along and unravels slowly. This is easily the most conventional Rivette film, focusing more on sketching out the characters' psychological terrain than any of his other works, though the film's style and narrative str...( read more)
Bernadette Giraud, Christine Vouilloz, Francoise Fabian
While working in her lab, Sylvie catches her younger brother Paul stealing a gun she keeps in a drawer. Paul believes a man named Walser murdered their father by pushing him off a train, a death that ...( read more
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