Noroît (1976) review

One of Rivette's most obscure features is this gender-swapped "adaptation" of the play The Revenger's Tragedy (written by either Thomas Middleton or Cyril Tourneur) that has a woman named Morag (Geraldine Chaplin) on a beach with her deceased brother and vowing revenge against the lady pirate Giulia (Bernadette Lafont) who did killed him, so she recruits Erika (Kika Markham) to help her with her plans (which don't quite work out that well).  If that description sounds tidy and easy-to-follow I can assure you the movie is everything but: it takes a wild amount of chutzpah to craft something this willfully obtuse (and keep in mind that I have seen the entirety of Out 1).  Many of the auteur's trademarks are in there - the rehearsal of a play, strong female characters, some narrative trickery, etc. - and the conclusion is unexpectedly unnerving, but once the end credits start rolling, you might be bewildered by what exactly transpired - it's a deconstructed Jacobean dream.  Oh, and as for the "moral": like a properly mixed Bloody Mary, never forget to serve "it" cold.