Noroît (1976)

Original title

Noroît (Une Vengeance)

Directed by

Jacques Rivette

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two women are pirates who seek revenge against each other. The plot is inspired by an old play. It is part of a planned series of films about parallel lives.

experimentalatmosphericslow-burndreamlikemoodystylizeddeliberateopaquetheatrical

What happens

Noroît (Une vengeance) is a 1976 experimental adventure fantasy drama directed by Jacques Rivette. The title is an alteration of nord-ouest (north-west), meaning the direction or the wind from that direction (in English, a "nor'wester"). The story is loosely based on Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy. The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Bernadette Lafont as pirates. Noroît would have followed Duelle (1976) as the third episode of the intended four-film series Scènes de la vie parallèle (the first being a supernatural love story and the fourth a musical). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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