Out 1 (Out 1 : Noli me tangere)

Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman made Out 1, also known as Out 1: Noli me tangere, a French experimental mystery film from 1971. It runs nearly thirteen hours (776 minutes) in eight parts of roughly ninety to a hundred minutes each, making it one of cinema's longest films. For decades it was hard to see, which turned it into a cult object.

The film draws on Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine, above all the Histoire des Treize cycle. Like Balzac, Rivette and Schiffman use the great length to build many loosely linked characters, each with stories and subplots that cross and keep turning up further characters. Every part opens with a handful of black-and-white stills recapping the previous episode. The cast includes Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michael Lonsdale, Bernadette Lafont, Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier.

The experiment with parallel subplots was shaped by André Cayatte's two-part La Vie conjugale, while Rivette first tried the idea of a very long film in L'Amour fou. The full-length cut carries the subtitle Noli me tangere ("touch me not"); the shorter edit of around four hours is known as Spectre. The film has drawn steady critical acclaim since release, placing 127th in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll and 169th in 2022.