Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began thanks to Rivette, the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his Cahiers du Ciné–™a colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer, was something of a late bloomer as a director. He made two shorts (Aux quatre coins (1949) and Quadrille, Le (1950), starring Jean-Luc Godard); in the mid-1950s he served as an assistant to Jean ...[Read Story]