THE GANG OF FOUR

France 1989 - DCP - 160 minutes, in French with English subtitles

Director: Jacques Rivette

Screenplay: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette

Producer: Martine Marignac

Cast: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba, Laurence Côte

Print Courtesy: Cohen Film Collection

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Friday, July 15 3:15 P.M. | RR2

The gang of four is not a gang but a household of young female acting students. Their teacher (played by icon of French and Rivetteian cinema Bulle Ogier) is a stern and quixotic taskmistress, directing an all-female cast in a production of a play by the celebrated 18th century French playwright Pierre Marivaux. The world here is one of shadowy and shifting conspiracies, perhaps imagined and perhaps real, a world populated by but one visible man, but many phantom ones. As in almost all Rivette, the mystery and portent are counterbalanced by delight and simple joys of appreciation of human beings, but in visualizing the world of THE GANG OF FOUR, Rivette and his gang of female collaborators, both behind and in front of the camera, make their own rules—and break them. New 4K restoration. —Ken Eisen

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