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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Directed by
Jacques Rivette
Not Rated
1974
3h 13m
Mystery
,
Comedy
,
and more
7.2
80%
87%
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A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
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Cast of Céline and Julie Go Boating
Juliet Berto
Céline / Writer
Dominique Labourier
Julie / Writer
Bulle Ogier
Camille / Writer
Marie-France Pisier
Sophie / Writer
Barbet Schroeder
Olivier / Producer
Nathalie Asnar
Madlyn
Marie-Thérèse Saussure
Poupie
Philippe Clévenot
Guilou
Anne Zamire
Lil
Jean Douchet
M'sieur Dede
Adèle Taffetas
Alice
Monique Clément
Myrtille
Jérôme Richard
Julien
Michael Graham
Boris
Jean-Marie Sénia
Cyrille
Jean-Claude Biette
Spectateur au cabaret (uncredited)
Jacques Bontemps
Lecteur à la bibliothèque (uncredited)
Michel Caen
Spectateur au cabaret (uncredited)
Jean Eustache
Spectateur au cabaret/lecteur a la bibliohèque (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Romer
Un producteur dans le cabaret (uncredited)
Jacques Rivette
Director / Writer
Eduardo de Gregorio
Writer
Céline and Julie Go Boating Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
A cauldron of magic, symbol, humor, dreams, and skits, that is ultimately defeated by its inordinate length.
Observer
Tom Milne
A delight for every one of its 192 minutes.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Just as the line demarcating reality (which here is always slightly askew) from fantasy is dissolved, so, too, do identities become porous.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Exotic fare not aimed at the average moviegoer.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
The rewards for one's patience with this film are very small.
San Francisco Examiner
Stanley Eichelbaum
The film has strong moments, but it's stretched too thin, and would have been far more effective if it were half as long.
MUBI
David Phelps
Céline and Julie Go Boating is a do it yourself guide to rediscovering the delights of the street outside, and of the idiots all around you.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The film's last 10 minutes constitute a stunning coup de theater, but the three hours it takes to get there, while intriguing, are awfully touch going.
CityArts
Armond White
Rivette's dry approach to improvisation and fantasy negates the kind of joy that his collaborators Labourier and Berto mean to have.
MUBI
Phil Christman
At a moment when so many of us feel that we've run through all of our strategies for surviving this strange sort of active stasis, this infinitely strange film about two mad women offers a vision of sanity.
The Nation
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
This recent release is exciting in its revelation of how much the film warrants repeated viewings.
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
Celine and Julie is verdant, airy, and playful.
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
It's as if Borges had cast Thelma and Louise in Groundhog Day.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The loosely guided performances are often slack, and the thin depiction of daily life lessens the power of fantasy, yet Rivette's fretful view of the dangers of stories is, in effect, a self-portrait as a cinephile on the verge of hallucination.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
If cinema can indeed "think," Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie is an epistemological treatise.
Variety
Variety Staff
An over indulged, overlong film that has some gem-like moments but also repetitiveness and preciosity.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
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.
New York Times
Nora Sayre
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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
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.
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