Out 1 is a
1971 film directed by
Jacques Rivette, one of the major filmmakers of the
French New Wave. Notorious for its unwieldy length of twelve hours and forty minutes, it is also referred to as
Out 1: Noli me tangere. When asked why the film is called
Out 1, Rivette responded, "I chose 'Out' as the opposite of the vogue word 'in', which had caught on in France and which I thought was silly. The action of the film is rather like a serial which could continue through several episodes, so I gave it the number 'One'." The
Spectre subtitle for the shorter version was similarly chosen for its ambiguous and various indistinct meanings, while the
Noli me tangere subtitle ("touch me not") for the original version is clearly a reference to it being the full-length film as intended by Rivette.