Who Knows?
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft. The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va sa…
Who Knows?
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft. The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted, well-read and cultured types, revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romance and theft. In the end, everything lands on its feet and they all get the partner they deserve, but before then, long filmer Rivette takes two and a half hours to dwell lightly on the vicissitudes around the six protagonists. Camille is an actress with an Italian company that is in Paris to perform a play by Pirandello, Come tu mi vuoi. Her boyfriend Ugo is the director and the company's most important actor. Both have a hidden agenda for their trip to Paris: Camille meets her ex Pierre, a professor of philosophy, while Ugo is secretly researching a supposedly lost play by Goldoni. In the archives, he is assisted by the charming student Do, who steals his heart. In turn, Do has a link with Pierre: her stepbrother, the playwright Arthur, namely steals an expensive ring from Pierre's wife Sonia. After many sophisticated conversations, secret rendezvous and references to Pirandello, events reach a hilarious climax when Pierre and Ugo challenge each other to an old-fashioned duel for life and death. —Anonymous While in Paris in a tour of the Italian play "Como Tu Mi Vuoi", the lead actress Camille, who is living with the director Ugo Bassani, recalls and misses her former love Pierre. She visits his apartment and meets his mate Sonia. Meanwhile Ugo is searching a lost play by Goldoni, and meets the charming French Dominique that helps him to find in her mother's private library. Meanwhile, Do's smalltime crook stepbrother Arthur seduces Sonia to steal her expensive ring. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Who Knows?
Comedy,Crime,Drama
Film Details
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft. The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted, well-read and cultured types, revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romance and theft.
In the end, everything lands on its feet and they all get the partner they deserve, but before then, long filmer Rivette takes two and a half hours to dwell lightly on the vicissitudes around the six protagonists. Camille is an actress with an Italian company that is in Paris to perform a play by Pirandello, Come tu mi vuoi. Her boyfriend Ugo is the director and the company's most important actor.
Both have a hidden agenda for their trip to Paris: Camille meets her ex Pierre, a professor of philosophy, while Ugo is secretly researching a supposedly lost play by Goldoni. In the archives, he is assisted by the charming student Do, who steals his heart. In turn, Do has a link with Pierre: her stepbrother, the playwright Arthur, namely steals an expensive ring from Pierre's wife Sonia.
After many sophisticated conversations, secret rendezvous and references to Pirandello, events reach a hilarious climax when Pierre and Ugo challenge each other to an old-fashioned duel for life and death. —Anonymous While in Paris in a tour of the Italian play "Como Tu Mi Vuoi", the lead actress Camille, who is living with the director Ugo Bassani, recalls and misses her former love Pierre. She visits his apartment and meets his mate Sonia.
Meanwhile Ugo is searching a lost play by Goldoni, and meets the charming French Dominique that helps him to find in her mother's private library. Meanwhile, Do's smalltime crook stepbrother Arthur seduces Sonia to steal her expensive ring. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.