Merry-Go-Round (1980)

Directed by

Jacques Rivette

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 40m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman disappears and her sister asks two strangers to help find her. The search leads them into a confusing web of crime and deception.

mysteriousunsettlingfragmentedcerebralslow-burntenseambiguousdisorienting

What happens

Merry-Go-Round is a 1981 French experimental mystery directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Maria Schneider and Joe Dallesandro. The film, which revolves around a kidnapping plot, follows a structure similar to that of a crime drama. The script was written by Rivette in collaboration with Eduardo de Gregorio and Suzanne Schiffman, with dialogue by de Gregorio. Filming took place in 1977, but the film remained unreleased until 1981. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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