Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration
Peter Bradshaw
Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda
April 2021
The stage on screen
Love on the Ground: the intimate illusions of Jacques Rivette’s chateau mystery
Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star in the French director’s enthralling and perplexing drama about rehearsals for a one-off performance
July 2018
The Nun review – queen of the New Wave returns
Jacques Rivette’s deeply strange 1966 story – soon out on DVD and Blu-Ray – is part erotic memoir, part melodrama
February 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
The Martian; The Lobster; Pan; The Show of Shows; Le Pont du Nord – review
Matt Damon’s everyman starman deserves an Oscar. And beneath Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantastical The Lobster lies a beating heart
Jacques Rivette’s blisteringly real 13-hour film finally gets released on home video
April 2006
Jacques Rivette: slave to beauty
Jacques Rivette’s films are a celebration of women, light, Paris in summer - and the power of storytelling. David Thomson pays tribute to one of the greatest living directors.
