Va Savoir

• Jeanne Balibar: Camille
• Marianne Basler: Sonia
• Hélène de Fougerolles: Dominique "Do"
• Catherine Rouvel: Madame Desprez
• Sergio Castellitto: Ugo
• Jacques Bonnaffé: Pierre
• Bruno Todeschini: Arthur
• Claude Berri: librarian
• Attilio Cucari: Salter
• Bettina Kee: Mop
• Luciana Castellucci: Lena
• Emanuele Vacca: Salesio
• Arturo Armone Caruso: Bruno
• Valeria Cavalli: Ines
• Fausto Maria Sciarappa: Silvio

Va Savoir is a French film directed by Jacques Rivette from the year 2001.

Action

After three years of absence, actress Camille returns for the first time back for a guest to Paris. The group around the theater director Ugo, who is Camille's partner, leads to Luigi Pirandello's play Come tu mi vuoi in Italian and will travel in a few days to Vienna. For Camille 's return to Paris is associated with mixed feelings, she had then her lover Pierre left behind, with whom she had lived for several years. She is looking after some hesitation on Pierre, first meets his new girlfriend Sonia, who are ballet lessons, and later on Pierre. He was still working on his dissertation on Martin Heidegger and currently teaches philosophy at a school financing. The first meeting between Camille and Pierre runs distances.

Ugo, meanwhile, is in a library on the go, but he is looking for the manuscript of Goldoni's Il destino veneziano piece, which was never released. It is believed that Goldoni once Nicolas Vernet gave the piece. It is Ugo's dream to find the piece one day and bring the first on stage. In the library, he meets the young Dominique, called Do, know. She advises him to consult manuscript collector. In a roundabout way, he finds out that the net- estate can be found in the house of Madame Desprez - Dos mother. Thus, the two meet again and spend many hours trying to find in the library Vernet for the manuscript. In this case both come closer, with the initiative of Do emanates. She reacts in frustration as Ugo their flirtation seriously. Dos half-brother Arthur, in turn, watches over his sister. At the same time it can occasionally go with valuable pieces of the networking library in order to collectors to sell and so to fund his living. Arthur revered Pierres girlfriend Sonia and followed it for some time with his love. Sonia, however, dismisses him again and again.

Camille invites Pierre and Sonia to the theater one, but only Pierre appear. The piece is only sparsely attended as all performances. Pierre praises Camille 's play, and Sonia align to Camille and Ugo would like to see would be for dinner. Ugo late in the eating, and then maintains Pierre and Sonia, which Camille is unpleasant. She goes the next day to Sonia and apologizes for the evening, but found the common Sonia round entertaining. She has an appointment so that both can not go out to eat together. In a bar Camille Sonia sees later in close embrace with Arthur. The again, it has actually apart only on Sonia's valuable diamond ring and secretly made ​​a footprint. Later he sedated Sonia and exchanges her ring against a cheap copy. Sonia is desperate, but the ring has a very emotional meaning for them. Camille promises to retry the ring, but Arthur has already begun now to flirt with her. She is looking at Arthur and presents him a choice: he could spend one night with her, or she will go immediately. He chooses the night and the next morning searches Camille his apartment. She finds the ring in the flour container.

Camille is unsure whether she wants to continue traveling to Vienna with the theater company. She wanted to speak with Pierre and draw a definitive line, but he confessed to her, to love her after all these years still and not let go away. Pierre even locked her in his apartment one, but she could escape through a skylight. Now she is unsure what Ugo also noted. He studied at Pierre and challenges him to a " duel ". They meet on the gridiron of the theater and drink a bottle of vodka. Who falls first in the under -loaded network, has lost by the rules. Pierre is falling. Thu, meanwhile, has found the sought Goldoni's pieces among the cookbooks of the family and bring it to the drunken after the duel Ugo. He is overjoyed. Camille handed Sonia her ring, which is the only reminder of its colorful past for Sonia. She has again recognized in the meantime, that they may live much easier without the ring and gives it to Camille. The turn passes it to Ugo on who can sell the ring and so save the financially troubled theater group. Camille has therefore decided to stay with the troops and Ugo.

Production

Va Savoir takes as many films Rivette's a theatrical performance in the film plot. " Rivette loves the theater, because it's so artificial, but makes that very reason even prefer films; and he loves it because he loves the actresses, "said Urs Jenny. In Va Savoir is Pirandello's play Come tu mi vuoi, in which Camille on stage embodies the nameless protagonist. The film was originally 3.5 hours, but Rivette cut it down for the theatrical release of around 160 minutes. As the Director 's Cut however, the film was also in the original length in theaters.

Va Savoir experienced on 16 May 2001 at the International Film Festival in Cannes premiered and came on 10 October 2001 in the French cinema. On 27 June 2002, the film was also in Germany. In 2008, he appeared with three other Rivette - works on the DVD Collection Jacques Rivette: Four Masterpieces in the shortened theatrical version. On television, the film was also titled Va Savoir - No one knows more.

Criticism

For the filmdienst Va Savoir was a " staged clever, witty written and convincingly played tragicomedy [ ... ], which uses the world of theater not only as an elegant interlude, but also as a great mirror of the dialectic between appearance and reality. "Mirror called the film a " stylish relationship dance ".

Awards

At the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2001 Va Savour was in competition for the Golden Palm. Hélène de Fougerolles received a César nomination for Most Promising Actress for her portrayal of Dominique 2002.