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Rivette goes on a lark now and then, as he does here and in VA SAVOIR. Taking vacation from his paranoid thrillers and brooding mysteries, he makes a convivial comedy - and a musical, inspired by Stanley Donen's GIVE A GIRL A BREAK, to boot. During one hot, lazy summer in Paris, three women find their fates interlaced: a moped courier who is fascinated by dancing; a wealthy woman who has spent five years in a coma and awakened to find she has inherited a house; and a librarian in a tormented search to find her birth parents. As their paths intersect in various Parisian settings, mysteries accrue involving secret societies, purloined documents, and encoded pop tunes, but when things get a little too heavy, the women break into song-and-dance numbers. (Anna Karina turns up as a chanteuse.) Rivette glories in the summery settings, in the vivaciousness of his actresses, and in the sheer joy of narrative in this most diverting of divertissements. “Masterpiece. A whole lifetime of moviegoing seems to lurk behind the pleasures offered by this movie” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader ).
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