Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sounds, Images


"In the 1970s, Jacques Rivette took the chance meetings and unlikely coincidences of a Hollywood plot to their natural conclusions: paranoia... Damien Chazelle has started there and worked his way back, finding the giddy and the romantic in the most archetypal 'Rivettian' images... There's an element of gleeful perversity to Chazelle's debut."