Paris Belongs to Us

Paris Belongs to Us (1961) — watch online on iFILM — is Jacques Rivette's debut feature, assembled over three years between 1958 and 1961 while Rivette funded it by working as a crew hand on his Nouvelle Vague peers' films. Literature student Anne Goupil goes with her brother to a late-night party and learns that a friend named Juan is dead — an apparent suicide. Someone suggests it wasn't.

She joins a theatrical company rehearsing Shakespeare and slowly convinces herself that the director and everyone around him are being hunted by an invisible organisation. The threat is never named, never confirmed, never dispelled. Godard and Brialy appear in small roles. Stream Paris Belongs to Us (1961) online on iFILM.