Northwest wind
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Northwest wind |
| Original title | NoroÎt |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 142 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| script | Jacques Rivette, Eduardo de Gregorio, Marilù Parolini |
| production | Stéphane Tchalgadjieff |
| music | Jean Cohen-Solal, Robert Cohen-Solal, Daniel Ponsard |
| camera | William Lubtchansky |
| cut | Nicole Lubtchansky |
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Northwest Wind (Original title: Noroît ) is a film by Jacques Rivette from 1976. Rivette called the film from part 3 of his, not fully realized, series Scènes de la vie parallèle (Scenes from parallel life).
action
Pure fantasy, based on a tragedy from the early seventeenth century - Cyril Tourneurs The Revenger's Tragedy , staged in a castle by the sea and in the rugged landscape that surrounds it.
The location of the action - “a small island in the Atlantic, some distance from a larger one” proclaims an insert - remains as indefinite as time.
The film begins with Morag's complaints about the body of her brother Shane. For his death she blames Giulia and her gang of pirates and she swears revenge. Her only ally is Erika, who in the second scene kills a woman from Giulia's gang on a rock by the sea. Erika wants to give up the fight, but Morag is sure of her goal: "Thirteen are still alive."
Always new alliances, conspiracies, struggles. But: the details of the plot ultimately become the least relevant aspect of this film.
At the end of the tragedy, all characters have died.
Varia
The locations
The interior shots took place in the Château de la Roche-Jagu, the exterior shots in the castle complex and in the vicinity of Fort la Latte ; both are located in Brittany.
The film music
The music in the film - Jean and Robert Cohen-Solal and Daniel Ponsard play double bass, flute, congas and percussion instruments - was all recorded directly on the set. Often not only the actors, but also the musicians are in the picture, so that the viewer always remains aware that they are seeing nothing but staged fiction.
DVD
Released in a box with Rivette's film Duelle , in the Les films de ma vie series . (Original French version.)
literature
- Hans C. Blumenberg , Duel of the Gods and Pirates , originally published in DIE ZEIT on September 16, 1977, republished in: Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe . Center d'Information Cinématographique de Munich, Revue CICIM 33 of June 1991, pp. 86-90. ISBN 3-920727-04-5 .
Web links
- Northwest wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jonathan Rosenbaum: Review of the film: Review 1976/77 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the credits it says: "Scénario ... d'après The Revengers Tragaedie de Cyril Tourneur"; but now the piece is apparently attributed to Thomas Middleton .
- ↑ According to the formulation of Jonathan Rosenbaum: "the plot itself ... eventually becomes the least relevant aspect of its experience."
- ↑ Information according to Les Filles du Feu: Rivette x4; including the contribution by Michael Graham.