Jacques Rivette, le veilleur

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur is a 1990 French television documentary film directed by Claire Denis and Serge Daney. Chronicling the life of film critic and director Jacques Rivette, it is an episode of the long running French TV show Cinéma, de notre temps, which profiles the lives of film directors. It was directed by Denis, with Daney acting as the interviewer. It was made in 1990 and first broadcast on Arte on 24 February 1994. It is broken up into two parts: Le Jour and La Nuit.

Participants

Jacques Rivette
Serge Daney
Bulle Ogier
Jean Babilée
Jean-François Stévenin

Reception

Travis Mackenzie Hoover wrote that the documentary portrays Rivette with "lonerish tendencies" and as "a sort of transient with no home or country, wandering about or loitering in public space instead of staking out some personal terra firma."