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The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

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The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

Gang of Four (1989)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 | 02:35:10 | 4,62 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Mystery

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba

No film critic of 1989 could write an assessment of the French-made Gang of Four (originally La Bande des Quatre) without using the phrase "Pirandellian" at one point or another. The story revolves around the hand-picked acting class of a famed director (Bulle Ogier) who works only with women. The four members of the class (Fejria Deliba, Nathalie Richard, Bernadette Giraud and Ines de Medeiros D'Almeida) are assigned to study the text of the Marivaux play Double Infidelities. Now, it just so happens that the four actresses share an apartment… and as they begin allowing the Marivaux play to influence their offstage lives, they share a lot more than room and board.



The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

Jacques Rivette's THE GANG OF FOUR is an intriguing, if somewhat overextended, melodrama that delves into Pirandellian questions of real versus theatrical life, and considers the nature of deception and fate. Constance (Bulle Ogier), a celebrated drama teacher, works only with women. Her students include Claude (Laurence Cote), Anna (Fejria Deliba), Joyce (Bernadette Giraud), and Lucia (Ines de Medeiros-D'Almeida), who live in a small house together. A mysterious man, Thomas (Benoit Regent), informs Anna that their ex-roommate, Cecile (Nathalie Richard), has been embroiled by her new lover in a shady and dangerous affair.

The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

Thomas begins to infiltrate the actresses' household, seducing the hitherto lesbian Claude. It seems the house harbors a secret, and Thomas is determined to discover it. Rivette (CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING, LOVE ON THE GROUND) maintains virtuoso control over his material, and the film unfolds in a leisurely but penetrating manner. He opens the film with a bravura stroke, taking Deliba from a cafe, through the streets of Paris, and into a room, where she strikes up a conversation with another woman–rehearsal having begun with a mysterious seamlessness worthy of Hitchcock.

The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

The rest of the film is similarly elegant in technique. On the other hand, Rivette has given short shrift to the film's suspense elements, and the ending is unsatisfyingly perplexing. With its theatrical atmosphere and intensely feminine focus, THE GANG OF FOUR recalls Gregory LaCava's scintillating STAGE DOOR (1937) and Mervyn LeRoy's intriguing, neglected DRAMATIC SCHOOL (1938).
The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

Of the nouvelle vague auteurs schooled at the influential journal Cahiers du cinéma, Jacques Rivette has always been the least addicted to realism. As one critic put it, Rivette is fascinated by ‘the narrative function of mystery (and the mysterious function of narrative)’ and obsessed with ‘the theatre as the art which raises most directly questions about illusion and reality, lies and truth’. The nature of fiction and the extent to which a performer is psychologically affected by the search for the interiority of their character are certainly his key preoccupations in Love on the Ground (1984) and Gang of Four (1989).

The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

However, in addition to revealing the mechanics of creativity, these films are also studies of the impact of intrusion upon an intimate coterie. Love on the Ground opens with a couple being surprised by an audience emerging from their bathroom having watched a play in a private apartment. Director Jean-Pierre Kalfon then persuades Geraldine Chaplin and Jane Birkin to act in his own production, which seems to be based on a love triangle involving Kalfon, his dead wife and magician André Dussollier. However, a climactic obtrusion further alters the group dynamic and we're left to ponder how far a work of fiction is influenced by the everyday life going on around it.

The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

In Gang of Four, shady operator Benoît Régent has a similarly disruptive effect upon the four actresses struggling to come to terms with their characters in Bulle Ogier's interpretation of a Marivaux play. Recalling the link forged between theatre and political intrigue in Rivette's debut feature, Paris nous appartient (1961), this has been described as a summation of his cinematic career.

The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

But Rivette brings this intellectual rigour and methodological ingenuity to every project he undertakes. Consequently, even such a supposedly atypical picture as Wuthering Heights (1985) confirms his conviction that text and performance are inextricably bound. Relocating the first part of Emily Brontë's novel to southern France in the 1930s, this is another tale of intrusion, as orphan Lucas Belvaux comes between Fabienne Babe and Olivier Torres, the brother who has just inherited the Hurlevant estate. Rarely has literature been so cinematic.
The Gang of Four (1989) [Re-UP]

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