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David Ehrenstein wrote:
>...."Duelle" has become my favorite Rivette film.....
>
>"Noroit" is similarly uncanny in the way it starts in
>drama and turns into dance ritual....
>
I've missed a lot of the recent ones, but these two are especially
great. With "Noroit," those strange numerical titles (act and scene, if
I remember right) have an amazing effect that you would never guess from
hearing them described: they bracket the whole film in a curiously
powerful way that I can't really account for, emphasizing it as fantasy
theater, showing one how to look at it -- and the titles I think make it
greater than it would be otherwise.
- Fred C.
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