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

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

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

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

A monumental if cheeky culmination of the French New Wave.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 11, 2007