The sadness that the film induces speaks to the impression it conveys, whether intentionally or not, and amidst all the confusion, that a historic opportunity was lost in 1968.

| Feb 14, 2021

Rivette's achievement: the epochal moment when words cohere out of a bundle of characters, meaning forms, and a new way to view and define the world opens up.

| Feb 3, 2020

You'll never see a more vivid portrait of a dynamic city at a specific moment than this film's documentary-quality depiction of Paris.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2019

Out 1 is about lives sliding up against one another and slipping off in myriad directions, until what once seemed real becomes something resembling myth.

| May 26, 2016

Out 1 is Rivette redux. His engagement with actors is there on the screen, creating energy even in simple conversational scenes, and they are co-conspirators in his hide-and-seek stories...

| Apr 15, 2016

If there's any truth to the old chestnut that great works of art teach you how to experience them, few films exemplify it quite so fully as Jacques Rivette's Out 1.

| Original Score: A | Feb 22, 2016

A cineaste's wet dream. All 13 hours of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2015

The contingent, the unforeseeable and uncontrollable, is a privileged element in much 20th-century experimental art-in music and painting as much as in film and literature-and Out 1 honors it to the maximum.

| Nov 12, 2015

It requires a theater, and it requires opting in -- though that, as I said before, is the hard part. After that, all that's left is to surrender to a movie that's like a new country ready to be explored.

| Nov 9, 2015

If the recent rise and fall of Occupy Wall Street is any indication, Rivette's playful yet deeply serious lament for the faded hopes of a whole generation will continue to be relevant as long as people dare to dream about reshaping the world.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 7, 2015

Uniquely ambitious, Rivette's film (technically a serial) spends nearly 13 hours stitching paranoia, loneliness, comedy, and mystical symbolism into a crazy quilt big enough to cover a generation.

| Original Score: A | Nov 5, 2015

Time and Narrative are pushed to the extreme in Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli me tangere, a film that operates simultaneously as stealth vérité and raw psychodrama.

| Nov 4, 2015

[G]alling acting exercises of its era performed by double, warring troupes, impacted jealousy, labyrinthine intrigues, counterculture quiddities, sudden gunfire and remarkable experiments with time and duration that are almost unaccountably moving.

| Nov 4, 2015

It wants to show the long, slow, painful, sad dissolution of plans, ambitions, even ideals.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2015

Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2015

Mr. Rivette's movie delivers an experience that is deeply satisfying precisely because it's kind of exhausting.

| Nov 3, 2015

Out 1's length is a strategy against progression, drama, or detail - there are no brilliant, memorable moments, just a brainwashing, an accretion of time that fashions its own rules for watching.

| Nov 3, 2015

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

| Mar 14, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2007

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.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2007