Jacques Rivette's
Histoire de Marie et Julien (
The Story of Marie and Julien) stars
Emmanuelle Béart and
Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a pair of ex-lovers who get back together after their lives change. Julien (
Radziwilowicz) is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie (
Béart)
is a mysterious woman who does not bleed after being cut. Her boyfriend
has died. Marie and Julien had once engaged in an affair when they were
each involved with other people, and now that they have no emotional
entanglements, they slowly begin a new relationship. This film started
decades before as a project in
Rivette's
"Scenes From a Parallel Life" series and abandons the majority of the
formal rules imposed by the filmmaker on the other films in the cycle.
