(Sunday) Movie Meetup — Paris Belongs To Us — Meet from 1 pm, film at 2 pm

We're going to see Jacques Rivette’s 1961 debut Paris Belongs To Us—the last film in this short season exploring the start of the French New Wave.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 1 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, there will be time to stop and talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

Paris Belongs To Us is the remarkable first feature from the great cinematic visionary Jacques Rivette, probably the least known of the major French New Wave directors.

Anne, a student in Paris, becomes involved with a group of her brother's arty friends and gets sucked into a mystery involving Philip, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism; Terry, a self-destructive femme fatale; theatre director Gerard; and Juan, a Spanish activist who apparently committed suicide, but was he murdered?

Rivette's rarely seen debut is one of the most important and far-reaching of the early New Wave films. It features guest appearances from fellow New Waver director's Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy, a striking musique concrète score, and stunning cinematography in black and white, which manages to be luminous and ominous at the same time.
— Watershed summary