While the actors are responsible for much of the creativity, these are the director's most obsessive works: every shot and scene is set up more as a question than an answer, hinging on the adventure and mystery of not knowing what will happen next.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
12 Nov 2007
fresh:
Rivette's last shot is an extraordinary throwaway that provoked spontaneous applause for being at once completely ordinary, totally unexpected, and positively diabolical in shifting the meaning of the entire previous 12 1/2 hours.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
12 Nov 2007
fresh:
A monumental if cheeky culmination of the French New Wave.