Jacques Rivette, France, 1974 Comment. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1973) Next morning, as a title helpfully informs us, Julie sets off and is ushered in turn into the mysterious house, from which she subsequently emerges, dazed and with a piece of candy in her mouth, to be whisked off in a waiting taxi, like the Rolls-Royce of the Princesse in Orphée .
My goal is not to "decipher" the film or to offer a reading of it that will make people "like" it. Céline et Julie mangent des bonbons magiques, lisent des livres ésotériques, et Jacques nous invite de l'autre côté, sur l'autre scène. Jacques Rivette is a significant figure in the French New Wave, and his allotted perception shots and agency to his female characters in Céline and Julie Go Boating creates a distinctive film.
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. It may seem slightly perverse to recommend a 192-minute metatextual odyssey through parallel worlds as the best introduction to a director’s work, but Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) is the quintessential Rivette film, and arguably his greatest. With Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier. It ultimately ascertains two women, Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier as Céline and Julie respectively, discovering feminine courage and a singleness of purpose within an unduly masculine world. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau, 1974) Where everything is fantasy with Céline it is memory with Julie.
. The story of two women who uncover a mysterious house in which a curious series of events unfolds each day, it represents the convergence of many of Rivette’s … The film's French title contains a pun; "vont en bateau" can also mean "get caught up in a story" or "go crazy". Celine and Julie Go Boating Juliet Berto (Actor, Writer), Dominique Labourier (Actor, Writer), Jacques Rivette (Director, Writer) & 0 more Rated: Unrated
Jacques Rivette is a significant figure in the French New Wave, and his allotted perception shots and agency to his female characters in Céline and Julie Go Boating creates a distinctive film. But, the next morning . Lire les 23 micro-critiques. For instance, the photograph found in the trunk which heralds the appearance of the mysterious house. Sharing a sense of the dramatic and the spirit of adventure, librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier, hilarious) is the more imaginative and occultish, the one who believes in real magic, while nightclub magician Céline is the more practically intelligent. Directed by Jacques Rivette. In the opening of his film Rivette ‘plays at cinema’ with his two actresses, telling a tale of a delayed meeting. Céline et Julie vont en bateau.