Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:18
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Barbet Schroeder, Bulle Ogier
Director: Jacques Rivette
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Reviews for Celine and Julie Go Boating
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 6/6 |
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. Full Review |
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Dialogue is minimal and events, such as they are, are propelled by a whimsicality characteristic of its era. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A witty salute to theater, female bonding, hallucinogenic candy, and those old standbys, fantasy and reality. Full Review |
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An over indulged, overlong film that has some gem-like moments but also repetitiveness and preciosity. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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A pleasant folly. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A defiantly unhurried and opaque film in our consumer-friendly commercial cinema. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
A charming and beautifully planned drama that resolves nothing -- and doesn't need to. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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3.5/5 |
With its commentary on art and fantasy, this is a radical experiment in non-linear filmmaking. Full Review |
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It is an incomprehensible, enjoyable, uninhibited slapstick romp. Full Review |
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4/4 |
In a perfect world, there would be an old movie palace somewhere that plays Celine and Julie Go Boating over and over. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Rivette's originality means that we find ourselves in the midst of what often seems like a dream. Full Review |
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