Jackie Raynal - Deux Fois

"This film is an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such - expectations, exploring the picture, perceptual memory, relationships between on-screen and off-screen space - all explored in a series of free-standing sequence shots of perfect simplicity."
Noel Burch

"About thirty shots, with rarely a spoken word. But this wouldn't be worth mentioning if Deux Fois were not the film it is: one of the strongest (and I'm weighing my words in these times of verbal inflation) yet, at the same time, most enigmatic works ever seen. It took me three screenings over the course of several years to accept that I don't understand a thing about Deux Fois"
Louis Skorecki, Semaine des Cahiers

"The Grand Prize winner at the 1972 Festival d’Hyères, Jackie Raynal’s "Deux Fois" was shot in Barcelona and Paris in 1969. That year, "Le Gai Savoir" (The Joy of Knowledge) by Jean-Luc Godard opened on French screens. The year before, Jackie Raynal edited "Cinétracts," also by Godard.
To consider these two films in the context of the abundant discoveries at the end of the 1960s and the revolt of 1968, we can posit that "Le Gai Savoir" was the same to the questioning of screen art as conceptual art was to the esthetical interrogation of that time. On the other hand, Deux Fois by Jackie Raynal would be to cinema as the formal expression of a group like Supports-Surfaces (which first appeared the same year "Deux Fois" was presented) was to the plastic research of its period. 
"Le Gai Savoir" deciphers and lays the cinema bare by defusing pictures and sounds, thus signing the death of bourgeois implementation, just like conceptual artists who, spreading quickly across the international scene, put language into question by indexing it and developing the tautological relationship between the verbal designation of an object, its image and its reality.
For Jackie Raynal and Jean-Luc Godard, the esthetic result is less important than the process of knowledge that is taking place, which logically provides the title for Godard’s work (“start from scratch, look around, see if there are any traces... look for what’s left,” “dissolve pictures and sounds,” grasp the “zero degree of pictures and sounds”). Frédérique Devaux