Jacques Rivette: Jacques Rivette. Director: La Belle Noiseuse. Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer, was something of a late bloomer as a director. He made two shorts (At the Four Corners (1949)...
Known For: La Belle Noiseuse (Director), Who Knows? (Director), Paris Belongs to Us (Director), The Gang of Four (Director)