Around a Small Mountain (2010)

But Rivette's new one, Around a Small Mountain, is only 84 minutes, and it feels as if it's missing something. An Italian motorist Vittorio (Sergio Castellitto) stops to help a stranded French woman, Kate (Jane Birkin), and learns that she's a member of a circus. He follows her and begins hanging around, befriending some clowns and a young woman who has grown up in that environment. He helps out wherever he can, but nothing major happens. He also appears to have fallen in love with Kate, but little comes of this. Kate mostly sulks about her mysterious past.

It's not that this is a bad film; it has most of Rivette's usual touches, and it's charming, but it just seems to go by too fast without settling on anything.