This nearly lost film by JacquesRivette, from 1981, captures the visions and moods of a nearly lost Paris and of a mode of thought that was also on its way out.
Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and JacquesRivette, all former film critics, he helped pioneer an informal film movement that turned traditional notions of narrative and style on their head.
Asked to pose for the master, she refuses angrily yet still turns up next morning and obligingly removes her clothes just the kind of odd, unreasoning change of heart that tells us we are watching a JacquesRivette film.