Noroît (film)

Noroît
Directed byJacques Rivette
Written byEduardo de Gregorio
Marilù Parolini
Jacques Rivette
Based onThe Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
Produced byStéphane Tchalgadjieff
StarringGeraldine Chaplin
Bernadette Lafont
CinematographyWilliam Lubtchansky
Edited byNicole Lubtchansky
Music byJean Cohen-Solal
Robert Cohen-Solal
Daniel Ponsard
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
135 min (Arrow Blu-Ray)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Noroît (Une vengeance) is a 1976 experimental adventure fantasy drama directed by Jacques Rivette. The title is an alteration of nord-ouest (north-west), meaning the direction or the wind from that direction (in English, a "nor'wester"). The story is loosely based on Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy. The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Bernadette Lafont as pirates. Noroît would have followed Duelle (1976) as the third episode of the intended four-film series Scènes de la vie parallèle (the first being a supernatural love story and the fourth a musical).