Barbet Schroeder is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer.
Schroeder at the Cannes Film Festival, 2017
Jacques Rivette was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
Rivette in 2006
François Truffaut outside a theatre showing Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (1958), considered the first film of the French New Wave. Truffaut was one of Rivette's best friends, and he and Chabrol helped finance Paris Belongs to Us.
Rivette cast Jean-Luc Godard's wife, Anna Karina, in The Nun (1966) and directed a theatrical version with Karina.
Juliet Berto (left) and Bulle Ogier (center) co-starred in Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974); Marie Dubois is on the right. Ogier appeared in seven of Rivette's films.