the museum of the move image here in new york recently put on a comprehensive retrospective of jacques rivette film . have fall in love with his paris nous appartient and i decide this be not to be miss . largely through extend shot and flexibly structure scene and the movie depict two avant garde theater company prepare their rendition of aeschylus seven against thebe and prometheus . additionally and we be show the directionless day to day life of two individual distantly connect to the company represent a work class woman name frederique who find creative way of hustle men out of their money and and a young man name colin who visit local cafés posing a a deaf mute and and play shrill harmonica at the patron until they pay him to go away . the first four hour or so be devote to establish the character and their pattern and before a somewhat loose and whimsical plot finally emerge involve a conspiracy and the decoding of clandestine secret letter . the film be largely about life on the fringe of society . the theater company be a despair affair and use their elaborate and emotionally drain exercise ( which be really something to watch ) to distract themselves from the fact that their act be unlikely ever to be stag or even see . colin and frederique both have very few friend and who only briefly find any excitement or purpose after the conspiracy touch them and a they be spur to find out more about it . the film meditates on the consequence of reject normal society in several memorable sequence and include a long shot of colin a he wander the street of france shout poetry to himself . a such and the film have be refer to a an analysis of 1960 counterculture . there be not a frame of the film that be not burst with energy and vitality . the fact that much of the dialogue and movement be improvise make the character much more spontaneous and much more immediate . the camera also become an important character in this regard while throughout the movie boom shadow be visible here and there and or other similar error and yet they seem natural and fit with the flow of the action because the camera be so important a player therein . more than anything for me and the film seem a great example of another way of make movie and a venue for film outside the usual pattern . for me it be a mind open experience and even more than paris nous appartient and though the latter bear many similarity of theme and structure . a must see for anybody ponder the nature of art .