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IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast:
Maria Schneider... L�o
Joe Dallesandro... Ben
Dani�le Gegauff... Elisabeth
Sylvie Matton... Shirley (as Sylvie Meyer)
Fran�oise Pr�vost... Ren�e Novick
Maurice Garrel... Julius Danvers
Michel Berto... J�r�me
Dominique Erlanger... La scer�taire
Fr�d�ric Mitterrand... Le conseil
Jean-Fran�ois St�venin... Le d�corateur
Pascale Dauman... L'infirmi�re
Marc Labrousse... Le premier complice
Jean Hernandez... Le deuxi�me complice
Benjamin Legrand... Le chauffeur
Florence Bernard... La femme du cimeti�re
Description:
So the story goes: Having completed only two (Duelle and Noro�t) of the proposed four films in his quick-succession series Scenes from a Parallel Life, Jacques Rivette found himself hounded by investors and teetering on the edge of sanity. The result: Merry-Go-Round—a fascinatingly nonsensical ramble through the director's own inland empire, featuring a scruffy Joe Dallesandro, as American abroad Ben Phillipps, and a sleepy-eyed Maria Schneider, as mystery woman L�o Hoffmann, wandering the French countryside in search of the elusive Elisabeth (Dani�le Gegauff), the former's girlfriend and the latter's sister. There are tenuous connections to the two completed Parallel Life films (as in the on-screen musical accompaniment performed by double bass player Barre Phillips and clarinetist John Surman) though Merry-Go-Round stands quite defiantly on its own.
As suggested by its opening titles, which scan like jagged, blooming-white slashes from a highly disturbed psyche, this is a film explicitly about schisms and parallel realities. Oftentimes, Rivette will cut away from Ben and L�o's shared quest to enter a paranoid headspace where each character imagines the other as a murderous antagonist. Furthering the sense of disconnection is that L�o is played in these scenes by Out 1's Hermine Karagheuz, a result of an extended and tumultuous shoot that culminated in Schneider's unplanned exit. Dallesandro's drug addiction and Rivette's increasing weariness (he would suffer a nervous breakdown upon Merry-Go-Round's late-'70s completion) likewise inform the twists and turns of this fractured fairy tale; indeed, it's almost impossible to divorce the film, which sat unreleased in its home country until 1983, from the behind-the-scenes chaos out of which it grew. And yet there is beauty in Merry-Go-Round's madness, especially in its sand dune-set climax (one of Rivette's finest finales) where Ben and L�o quite literally find peace, respite, and tranquility in their own heads.
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File size: 1.81Gb | Dimensions: 704 x 528
Video: 1498kbps XviD | Audio: 192kb/s mp3
Language: French (English .srt subs included
Running time: 154 minutes