Jacques Rivette's experimental opus is one that messes around with editing and sequencing. The idea of "magic" is used as a substantial enough excuse to toy with the basic fundamentals of filmmaking and storytelling.
Magic, in fact, is one of the original elements of filmmaking; let's not forget that artists like Georges Méliès used film as a new form of performing illusions to the masses. Magic is used a little bit differently here, though. This is an artistic magic; an explosion of imagination, if you will.
This is an adventure into a new reality and a different mindset, and daring works of this nature are worthy of being examined on a large scale. This is narrative and structural experimentation that has to be worthy of analysis somewhere.
