Screening: Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971)

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Screening: Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971)

Time: June 25, 2011 to June 26, 2011
Location: The Reading Room
City/Town: Bangkok,Thailand
Website or Map: http://www.readingroombkk.org
Phone: 02 635 3674,089 666 7978
Event Type: film, movie
Latest Activity: Jun 17, 2011

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Screening: Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971)
Dir. Jacques Rivette
Sat 25 & Sun 26 June, noon-7pm
At The Reading Room
 The Reading Room and FilmVirus presents two-day screenings of Jacques Rivette's rarely seen 8-episode classic television series from 1971, "Out 1, Noli me tangere" on the weekends of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of June from noon to 7pm, with half time break. The film is in French with English subtitles.
 Schedule
Sat 25 June: Episode 1 - Episode 4: 12-7pm, with half time break
Sun 26 June: Episode 5 - Episode 8: 12-7pm, with half time break
 Film information
Out 1, Noli me tangere (France, 1971)
Director: Jacques Rivette
Runtime: 760 (unevenly laid across eight episodes)
Language: French with English subtitle
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michael Lonsdale, Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Bernadette Lafont, Juliet Berto, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Barbet Schroeder and Éric Rohmer 
Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's near-mythic 13-hour serial, divided into eight episodes around 90–100 minutes each, the film is distinctly and explicitly indebted to Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine, particularly the History of the Thirteen collection (1833–1835). The vast length of the film allows Rivette, like Balzac, to construct multiple loosely connected characters with independent stories whose subplots weave amongst each other and continually uncover new characters with their own subplots.
 "Out 1" is a very precise picture of post May '68 malaise - when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a great many other things. Two marginals who don't know one another stumble into the remnants of a "secret society": Thomas, a seemingly deaf-mute who all of a sudden begins to talk and Frederique, a con artist working the "short con" (stealing drinks and tricking men who think she's a hooker out of their money). Meanwhile there are two theater groups rehearsing classic Greek dramas: "Seven Against Thebes" and "Prometheus Bound". A member of the Moretti group passes a note to Leaud about "The 13" which sends Leaud on a search for "The 13". His search brings him eventually to Bulle Ogier's shop in Les Halles "L'Angle du Hasard." Berto follows much the same path when she steals a cachet of letters from Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and tries to get money from their owners for their return. These twin activities reactivate "The 13" which had been dormant for years, revealing among other things that the two theater groups were once one.

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