"One of the great French films of the 1960s. It centers on rehearsals for a production of Racine's Andromaque and the doomed yet passionate relationship between the director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) and his actress wife (Bulle Ogier), who leaves the production at the beginning of the film and then festers in paranoid isolation. The rehearsals . . . are real, and the relationship between Kalfon and Ogier is fictional, but this only begins to describe the powerful interfacing of life and art that takes place over the film's hypnotic, epic unfolding. . . . The oscillation between love and madness, passion and mistrust, builds to several terrifying and awesome climaxes in which the distinctions between life and theater, reality and fiction, become virtually irrelevant. In many ways this is Ogier's richest, finest performance, and Kalfon keeps pace with her every step of the way. This film captures the dreams and desperation of the sixties like few others, and you emerge from it changed; it's a life experience as much as a film experience."

—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

• Written by Rivette, Marilù Parolini. Photographed by Alain Levent, Etienne Becker. With Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop, Michèle Moretti. (255 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From TAMASA Distribution)