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A founder and leading light of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette has now created his masterpiece. The luminous Jeanne Balibar plays Camille, a French actress who after three years in Italy returns to Paris in a production of Pirandello's As You Desire Me. Yet the return is bittersweet, as Camille has never resolved her feelings for Pierre, the French academic she abandoned. Meanwhile, her current lover and stage director, Ugo, searches Paris for a lost manuscript, a process which leads him to the home of the beautiful young student, Do - whose brother, Arthur, is involved with Pierre's current wife, Sonia.

As these various actual and potential couples separate and commiserate, Rivette offers a brilliant reflection on life, romance, theatre, art-making and love-making - and the impossibility of trying to disentangle these topics.

Few films can rightly be compared to acknowledged masterworks such as Rules of the Game or Smiles of a Summer Night; Va Savoir is that rare film which richly deserves such comparisons. It premiered to a rapturous response in Official Selection at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and also featured as the Opening Night Gala film of the recent New York Film Festival.

"Va Savoir, an entrancing ensemble piece, directed with calm assurance and acted by a fine cast is structured and scripted with wit and precision. Rivette lingers on these unfolding romantic adventures which, as always in his films, involve cultured, witty, literate characters. It's a joy to watch and listen to such sophisticated material handled with such ease." (Variety)

2001 France (154 min.)

Directed by Jacques Rivette
Writing Credits: Jacques Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent
Cast: Jacques Bonnaffé, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Bruno Todeschini, Hélène de Fougerolle
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classic.