Jacques Rivette's DUELLE and NOROIT Come to BAM in October

Restorations of Jacques Rivette's Duelle and Noroît come to BAM for parallel runs this October. In the mid-1970s, Rivette reunited with the producer of his legendary Out 1 for a series of interconnected films set in four genres: a love story, a western, a thriller, and a musical comedy. In the end, only two films were completed. The first, Duelle (1976, Oct 15-21), stands as one of Rivette's most striking and beguiling works. Starring French New Wave icons Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier, the fantastical drama follows the Queen of the Sun (Ogier) and the Queen of the Night (Berto) as they search for a magical diamond in present day Paris.

Noroît (1976, Oct 15-18), the second completed film, is a true rarity: the arthouse pirate film. Working with the iconic performers Geraldine Chaplin and Bernadet Lafont, the film follows a woman (Chaplin) out to avenge the murder of her brother by a band of pirates led by Lafont. Full of Rivette's signature reflexivity and dreamlike imagery, Noroît is a singular film from one of cinema's most iconoclastic directors.

Restorations courtesy of Arrow Films and the American Genre Film Archive.