Paris Belongs To Us

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.

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