A set of (false) leads driven by the duo Joe Dallesandro / Maria Schneider
New 2K restoration
A man and a woman meet in a hotel near Roissy airport because they have both received a telegram from a certain Elisabeth inviting them to this mysterious meeting. They meet: the American Ben is a friend of the young woman while Leo is none other than her younger sister. With no news from Elisabeth, Ben and Leo go looking for her. But when they finally find her, she is kidnapped before their eyes...
With Merry-Go-Round , Jacques Rivette signs a thrilling chase through the Parisian suburbs that looks like a spy film. The filmmaker plays with the spectator as well as with his characters in this game of the goose on a human scale, led by his formidable duo of actors: Joe Dallesandro, darling of New York underground cinema and muse of Andy Warhol then courted by many European directors, and Maria Schneider, the heroine of Last Tango in Paris and Profession: reporter .
MERRY-GO-ROUND
(1977-78 – Colors – 160 mins)
new 2K restoration
SUPPLEMENTS *
. A GHOST FILM: STÉPHANE TCHAL GADJIEFF ABOUT JACQUES RIVETTE AND "STORY OF MARIE ET JULIEN " (1975) (22 mn)
Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, producer of Jacques Rivette in the 1970s, talks about the unfinished third film of the “Scenes from Parallel Life” cycle which would have followed Noroît and which was replaced by Merry-Go-Round . An interview with Wilfried Reichart, recorded in 2004.
. TRAILER 2018
* in HD on the Blu-ray version
Released February 20, 2019
