Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976)
95 %
Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 18 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 13 mins
Synopsis: Two young girls assist an invalid woman torn between her widowed father's two spiteful lovers, whose envy of his paternal devotion is approaching murderous levels. A hallucinatory fable, based on "A Romance of Certain Old Clothes" by Henry James.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Barbet Schroeder, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Director: Jacques Rivette
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Screenwriter: Jacques Rivette, Eduardo De Gregorio, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Composer: Jean-Marie Senia
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Screenwriter: Jacques Rivette, Eduardo De Gregorio, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Composer: Jean-Marie Senia
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Jacques Rivette’s free-form dissertation on the interzone between performance and spectatorship is the ideal filmgoing experience, even as the 'story' transcends all long-standing rules of narrative engagement.
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06/11/08
Dialogue is minimal and events, such as they are, are propelled by a whimsicality characteristic of its era.
11/12/07
A witty salute to theater, female bonding, hallucinogenic candy, and those old standbys, fantasy and reality.
11/12/07
An over indulged, overlong film that has some gem-like moments but also repetitiveness and preciosity.
11/12/07
Top Critic
Jacques Rivette's 193-minute comic feminist extravaganza is as scary and unsettling in its narrative high jinks as it is exhilarating in its uninhibited slapstick.
11/12/07
Top Critic
Jacques Rivette's masterpiece is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland.
11/06/06
A defiantly unhurried and opaque film in our consumer-friendly commercial cinema.
05/06/06
A charming and beautifully planned drama that resolves nothing -- and doesn't need to.
05/05/06
When this movie sags, it becomes a series of skits, but the best parts do achieve the spontaneity and impudent freshness that this director relishes.
05/09/05
Top Critic
Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy Celine and Julie Go Boating observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them.
12/11/03
With its commentary on art and fantasy, this is a radical experiment in non-linear filmmaking.
07/16/03
In a perfect world, there would be an old movie palace somewhere that plays Celine and Julie Go Boating over and over.
01/01/00
Rivette's originality means that we find ourselves in the midst of what often seems like a dream.
01/01/00
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