Out 1 (1971)
Out 1 (1971)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Colin
Michael Lonsdale
Thomas
Sylvain Corthay
Achille
Juliet Berto
Frédérique
Michèle Moretti
Lili
Hermine Karagheuz
Marie
Karen Puig
Elaine
Pierre Baillot
Quentin
Marcel Bozonnet
Nicolas / Arsenal / Papa / Théo
Bernadette Onfroy
Bergamotte
Edwine Moatti
Béatrice
Monique Clément
Faune
Françoise Fabian
Lucie
Jacques Rivette
Creator / Director / Writer
Suzanne Schiffman
Director / Writer
Honoré de Balzac
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 9, 1971
Original NameOut 1 : Noli me tangere
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes8
Genres
Wiki.
Out 1, also referred to as Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, is a 1971 French film directed by Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman. It is indebted to Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine, particularly the History of the Thirteen collection (1833–35). Known for its length of nearly 13 hours, the film is divided into eight parts of approximately 90–100 minutes each.
The vast length of Out 1 allows Rivette and Schiffman, like Balzac, to construct multiple loosely connected characters with independent stories whose subplots weave amongst each other and continually uncover new characters with their own subplots. A shorter version of the film exists, and its Spectre subtitle was chosen for the name's ambiguous and various indistinct meanings, while the Noli me tangere ("touch me not") subtitle for the original version is clearly a reference to it being the full-length film as intended by Rivette.
The film's experimentation with parallel subplots was influenced by André Cayatte's two-part Anatomy of a Marriage (1964), while the use of expansive screen time was first toyed with by Rivette in L'amour fou (1969). The parallel narrative structure has since been used in many other notable films, including Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Lucas Belvaux's Trilogie, which includes Un couple épatant, Cavale and Après la vie, to name a few. Each part begins with a title in the form of "from person to person" (usually indicating the first and last characters seen in each episode), followed by a handful of black and white still photos recapitulating the scenes of the prior episode, then concluded by showing the final minute or so (in black and white) of the last episode before cutting into the new episode itself (which is entirely in color).
Out 1 received 13 votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made, resulting in a final ranking of 127th.