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Information
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 252 min.
- Director
- Jacques Rivette
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 7.9
- Votes *
- 496
- Checks
- 287
- Favs
- 23
- Dislikes
- 6
- Favs/checks
- 8.0% (1:12)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Book of Sand
As others have mentioned, the online prints of this film are generally of poor quality; they look transferred from videotape. The most watchable is here: https://rarefilmm.com/2019/02/lamour-fou-1969/ 4 months 2 weeks ago -
ucuruju
I really wish there were better copies of the film out there. This was really good-- but its extremely protracted and not all of the scenes should be there-- in fact a lot of them are edited together seemingly at random. I still found the rehearsal material fascinating and I think the tedium of the repetitious and banal exercise of reciting words written long ago, trying to make them live again, is explored in an interesting way. This is of course contrasted with the excitement and drama that is provided by toxic relationships-- and how the hatefulness and conflict that arises from them can fuel creativity and passion but also ultimately destroy a person. Recommended. 2 years ago -
Ray Anselmo
Like a lot of 4-to-5-hour movies, this one has a good 90-to-120-minute film inside it that wasn't allowed to come out. But even edited down to reasonable size, the plot is still too banal to be a great film. Imagine Scenes from a Marriage if none of the characters cared all that much. 3/10
If you still want to chance it, there's a low-quality version with English subs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPrlX7sOuE 2 years ago
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This movie ranks #353 in ICM Forum's 500<400
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This movie ranks #579 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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This movie ranks #701 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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This movie ranks #880 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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This movie ranks #913 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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