Merry go round 1981 film biography

Merry-Go-Round is a 1981 film by Jacques Rivette, starring Maria Schneider and Joe Dallesandro. The film is a crime drama revolving around a kidnapping plot.

Elizabeth (Danièle Gégauff) sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben (Dallesandro) in New York City and to her younger sister Léo (Schneider) in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. The scenario was written by Rivette in collaboration with Eduardo de Gregorio and Suzanne Schiffman, with dialogue by de Gregorio.

Distributed by Roissy Films.

Filming

Merry-Go-Round was conceived in the aftermath of the collapse of Rivette's projected four-film series Scenes de la vie parallele (of which only Duelle and Noroît were completed).^[1] Schneider exited the film during shooting, and in some scenes Léo is played by Hermine Karagheuz.^[2]

In an interview with Serge Daney and Jean Narboni, Rivette describes the film's process: "We started