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“An exciting example of Rivette's incomparable, uncompromising, exhilaratingly idiosyncratic cinema” ( The Village Voice ), DUELLE may remind you of Cocteau's ORPHÉE. Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier play rival goddesses of the sun and moon who descend to Paris to search for a magical stone that will allow them to stay on earth past their few allotted days. Influenced by Cocteau, Dreyer, Val Lewton (especially THE SEVENTH VICTIM) and film noir (KISS ME DEADLY, THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE BIG SLEEP, and TOUCH OF EVIL), DUELLE is set “in a thriller milieu - a dance hall called The Rumba, an aquarium, the Metro, a racetrack, the lobby of a grand hotel” (Richard Roud). In many ways an extension of CÉLINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU, DUELLE turns the fantasy and playfulness of that film into pure spectacle. Print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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