36 | Vues Du Pic Saint Loup

“A whimsical eulogy of sorts to the New Wave icon’s treasured theme of life-as-performance. Modestly scaled and terse by Rivettian standards... it is a banquet of ideas about cinema and life” Reverse Shot

: Kate is returning to her family’s small, struggling traveling circus—a world she abandoned years ago following a tragic accident. 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup

: Unlike Rivette's four-hour epics like La Belle Noiseuse , this film is "sedately whimsical" and flows effortlessly from scene to scene. “A whimsical eulogy of sorts to the New

: Vittorio, intrigued by Kate’s aloof melancholy, follows her and slowly embeds himself in the troupe’s daily life to uncover her secrets. : Unlike Rivette's four-hour epics like La Belle

The film opens with a chance encounter on a country road: Kate (Jane Birkin) is stranded by her stalled car until Vittorio (Sergio Castellitto), an Italian traveler in a sports car, swoops in to restart it with a few "superfluid" taps on the engine.

: Shot in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, the mountain of the title (Pic Saint-Loup) looms in the background of many shots, serving as a natural anchor for the film's "Eden-like" aesthetic.