Love On the Ground [Blu-ray]

Director: Suzanne Schiffman, Jacques Rivette Suzanne Schiffman

Overview

The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspective, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised by a group of people. It turns out that the people are the audience watching a play performed in a private home. Among the spectators is Clément (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) a director who invites two actresses (Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin) to his home for the following Saturday, to work on a performance. Clément was having an affair with Béatrice (Isabelle Linnartz) who has apparently disappeared. A magician named Paul (André Dussolier) is his current lover and lives in Clément's home. After the actresses arrive, they find themselves influenced by Paul's magic and start to see their future, while the story they are enacting stays fairly close to Clément's own life. After many rehearsals over one week's time, the play is performed while actual changes happen in the corresponding characters in Clément's life -- until the play within a play ends in an interesting, controversial, yet logical manner.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/14/2023
UPC:	0738329261719
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	NR
Source:	Cohen Film
Language:	English
Time:	2:56:00
Sales rank:	29,030

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean-Pierre Kalfon	Clément
Sandra Montaigu	Eléonore
Geraldine Chaplin	Charlotte
Facundo Bo	Silvano
André Dussollier	Paul
Laszlo Szabo	Virgil
Isabelle Linnartz	Beatrice
Jane Birkin	Emily

Technical Credits

Suzanne Schiffman

Pascal Bonitzer

Jacques Rivette

Bernard Chaumeil	Sound/Sound Designer
Pierre Gamet	Sound/Sound Designer
Suzanne Schiffman	Director,Screenwriter
Pascal Bonitzer	Screenwriter
Jacques Rivette	Director,Screenwriter
Martine Mariganc	Producer