"I'll tell you why Rivette is important. After finishing Paris belongs to us, he declares: "The intellectual nothingness of the films of Louis Malle", and it is printed. Today in Italy nobody would print that, not even the Manifesto, I swear to you. Today, if someone said, "The intellectual nothingness of the films of Rosi", it would be put ... in safety. That's what's changed. At the time, the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, of which Rivette was the editor-in-chief, was a review of combat, struggle, and war. Because they destroyed Delannoy which is a glory of French cinema. It's like saying ... What is the name of the beautiful story of Bellocchio? Which we saw 1 / 2h to Buti under the stars. The Ora di Religion. It's vomiting, you have to have the courage to say it. And Rivette at the time in his magazine had the courage to say it. He was also able to say that the Taviani are sentimental dunces and that there is not the slightest emotion in these films, nor in those of Bellocchio; There is only a sauce, a soup to vomit useless images that do not exist, that do not hold, that are not there, there is nothing on the screen. At the time the Cahiers were doing this work. They were able to say, "The intellectual nothingness of Louis Malle's films," it was a terrible thing at the time. Truffaut wrote pages and pages in Arts against Delannoy, to defend Bresson. It was always to defend something."
