The Longest Movies In The History Of Cinema

Out 1, also referred to as Out 1: Noli Me Tangere is a 1971 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. It is indebted to Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine, particularly the History of the Thirteen collection (1833–35). Known for its length of nearly 13 hours, the film is divided into eight parts around 90–100 minutes each. The vast length of Out 1 allows Rivette, like Balzac, to construct multiple loosely connected characters with independent stories whose subplots weave amongst each other and continually uncover new characters with their own subplots. A shorter version of the film exists, and its Spectre subtitle was chosen for the name's ambiguous and various indistinct meanings, while the Noli me Tangere ("touch me not") subtitle for the original version is clearly a reference to it being the full-length film as intended by Rivette.