Jacques Rivette: a subtle master of slow-burn cinema

With his unhurried, free-form explorations of art and sex – one of which ran for amost 13 hours – the French New Wave’s late-blooming great continued thinking and innovating until the end Related: Film director Jacques Rivette, stalwart of the French new wave, dies aged 87 A phrase that occasionally crops up in cinema criticism is “real time”. This is the effect of unediting: the long, slow, unhurried and continuous camera takes that seek the experience of life itse