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TORONTO PREMIERE!
We are pleased to present the Toronto premiere of a work that was unavailable for our last Rivette retrospective. As its title suggests, DIVERTIMENTO is a lighter (and slimmer) variation on LA BELLE NOISEUSE, developed by Rivette when he had to cut the latter opus down for presentation on French television. As with OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE and its “spectre,” this trim version is so different from NOISEUSE that it is, as New Yorker critic Anthony Lane called it, “a different beast altogether.” A young artist and his girlfriend (Béart) visit the artist Frenhofer (Piccoli) and his wife (Birkin) at their home in Montpellier. A Rivettian play of power and paranoia ensues, but there is a double fascination for those who have seen LA BELLE NOISEUSE in how Rivette brilliantly conjured this second work out of alternate shots, reverse angles, and other leftover materials from the longer film, thereby giving it a kind of phantom companion, and creating a parallel for the painter's own artistic process: what to put in, what to leave out of the frame?
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