and
Michel Piccoli at the
1991 Cannes Film Festival. Rivette cut a shorter version of
La Belle Noiseuse called
La Belle noiseuse: Divertimento. Rivette edited shorter versions of several of his films with long running times. When ''L'Amour fou'' was released in January 1969 the 127 minute alternate version was simultaneously released at the production company's request. This version was simply a shorter version of the original work and Rivette immediately disowned it. The shorter
Out 1: Spectre was 260 minutes and released in March 1974. Rivette said that
Spectre was more of "a fiction about certain characters", "much tighter", "more compelling" and that it was "a different film having its own logic; closer to a jigsaw or crossword puzzle than was [
Noli me tangere], playing less on affectivity, more on rhymes and contrasts, ruptures and connections, caesurae and censorship." When
Out 1: Noli me tangere was restored in 2006, Rivette re-edited the film, rearranging scenes and cutting a ten-minute sequence out of the original 760 minute version.
Love on the Ground was released as a 120-minute version after Rivette was forced to cut 50 minutes by the film's distributor. He said that the longer version was more complex and "structured similarly to
Raymond Roussel's
New Impressions of Africa, where there is a phrase, and then a parenthesis, which is tied to yet another phrase, and another parenthesis, ad infinitum." In order to cut 50 minutes out he simply "lifted the parentheses." The shorter cut of
La Belle noiseuse (called
La Belle noiseuse: Divertimento) was 120 minutes. He made this version due to contractual obligations to the film's producers and used different takes than the original film. This version is an entirely new film and not just a shorter version of the original work. The word Divertimento is both a reference to
Igor Stravinsky's Divertimento from
Le baiser de la fée and translates to a "not too serious work." This shorter version changes the film's focus from the process of creating art to the evaluation of the finished product. Rivette's original 220 minute cut of
Va Savoir (called
Va Savoir+) premiered on 24 April 2002 and only sold 1,734 tickets in its seven-week theatrical run at the cinema du Pantheon in Paris. Rivette said that
Va Savoir+ is a completely different film than
Va Savoir, the major difference being lengthy scenes of the actors performing Pirandello's
Come tu mi vuoi instead of just rehearsals. Rivette said that in the longer version Pirandello's play is "another character" in the film. ==See also==