Va savoir

Screening on Film

Directed by Jacques Rivette.
With Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Sergio Castellitto.
France, 2001, 35mm, color, 154 min.
French with English subtitles.

Rivette explores the intersecting lives of six characters in his latest tableau of theatrical life. Jeanne Balibar stars as Camille, the lead actress of an Italian stage production who has returned to Paris after three years and must confront her newly married ex-boyfriend. Her current lover Ugo is the director of the play and is unaware of her conflict, largely due to his own preoccupation with the search for a missing eighteenth-century Italian manuscript. He enlists the aid of a mysterious but alluring student who helps him in his quest but also has complicated entanglements which tie her to both Camille and Ugo. Va savoir leisurely weaves together its alluring characters in one of Rivette’s lighter and most enjoyable works.