Lydia Encyclopidia

Of course, Jeanne Dielman’s duration is chump change compared to Jacques Rivette’s Out 1, an eight-part saga that clocks in at just over 12 hours. Ostensibly chronicling Jean-Pierre Léaud’s attempt to uncover a mysterious Balzac-inspired conspiracy, the film is more profoundly an exploration of our attempts to impose or simply invent meaning to harness the inchoate chaos of life, a process that can drive people to madness. (Rivette suffered a nervous breakdown a few years later.) Considering that Out 1 has only been screened a handful of times in the nearly four decades since its completion, attempting to see it is a quest nearly as insane, but very much worth the payoff.

- The AV Club

I saw Out 1, MFs.