Jean-Claude Rousseau

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still ...

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. […] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that ...

Rousseau’s first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from ...

Rousseau is shown sitting in a room, waiting. Voices leave messages on his answering machine (sound); a table lamp (light) and an empty writing ...

“if he leaned out the window, if he did that movement, if he risked to fall or to drop the camera, if he leaned to fall, then he would see ...

Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this ...