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Jacques Rivette's work with extreme duration is interesting re. boredom in the cinema. There's a scene somewhere in the middle of the 12 hour 40 minutes Out 1 where a bunch of characters sit around in a hippy boutique chatting, eating, listening to music and falling asleep that opens up a kind of abyss of bordeom that would seem designed to reflect the weariness of the spectator at this point of the viewing marathon. Significantly, however, this is the point in the movie where the Jean-Pierre Léaud character falls in love with the Bulle Ogier character. I am exploring - in work ongoing - how love and desire, in Rivette's films, seem frequently to be born of, or at least to interact with, these states of boredom, inertia, melancholy... (see also: La Belle Noiseuse, L'Amour par terre, L'Amour fou, etc...) Douglas Morrey Lecturer in French School of Modern Languages University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: +44 (0)191 2227489 * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **