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Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Director: Jacques Rivette

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From Time Out London

Two weekends ago, a small and loyal crowd stumbled out of the NFT after watching all twelve-and-a-half hours of Jacques Rivette’s very rare 1971 film, ‘Out One’. In such light it seems wimpish to draw attention to the three-hour-plus running time of this both charming and frustrating film, which sees our titular pair Céline (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier) elude the film’s threat of aquatic adventures until its closing scenes and instead enjoy a magical mystery tour – aided by ingesting ‘magic rocks’ – of the streets and empty houses of Paris’s Montmartre, dipping, at points, into a parallel narrative based loosely on a Henry James novel (although Rivette never actually read ‘The Other House’). A pleasant folly, Rivette’s biggest success – critically and commercially – plays like an ensemble adventure with a dressing-up box in the streets of Paris. Berto and Labourier largely improvise their dialogue (and their costumes and even some of the story, too, I imagine), which offers the best and worst of such a pursuit. Handle with care.

Author: Dave Calhoun 2006-05-02 09:56:40

Time Out London Issue 1863: May 3-10 2006


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  • Technoguy said...
    Posted on Apr 23 2008 23:52 I Loved this film.It's a sort of glorious,silly romp full
    of spirit and joie de vivre,with a feel of the 60s.
    The leading actresses improvise a lot.There is another house with a parralel universe feel to it
    where the actresses have to play a role and they seem to feel there is a kind of plot going on.They have to kidnap a young girl who is in danger. They end up boating on a lake.A treat!
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Cast & crew

Director: Jacques Rivette

Producer: Barbet Schroeder

Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder full cast

Rated: 12A

Duration: 192 mins

UK Release: May 5 2006
US Release: Jun 13 2008




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