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PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
JEAN ROUCH
Sundays & Mondays through February 5
Jean Rouch (1917-2004) began as a civil engineer interested in rituals he observed in colonial Niger; nearly 120 films later, he would be an avatar of the Nouvelle Vague, one of the inventors of cinéma vérité, of visual anthropology, of “ethno-fiction,” and of the Nigerien film industry itself.
The Rouch classics shown here include 8 new restorations from Icarus Films.
Part of our 60s VERITÉ Series
Presented with support from The George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema.
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“Rouch is the force behind all French cinema of the past ten years, although few people realize it. Jean-Luc Godard came from Rouch… All Rouch’s films are exemplary, even those where he failed.”
– Jacques Rivette
Films in this Series
