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Celine And Julie Go Boating [1974]
from Bfi Video
starring Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder
directed by Jacques Rivette

Features:

• Full Screen
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Soft, strong and very, very long.
  Even by the French New wave's standards, director Jacques Rivette's films come across as, shall I say..'Unique'.
  Which is probably the reason he isn't as well known as the other New Wavers, such as Godard and Truffaut.
  Yet surely fans of the French New Wave are actively looking for films that are a little strange and obtuse aren't they? If that person is you, then I wholeheartedly recommend that you give this film a try.
  Celine and Julie meet for the first time at Montmartre. They suddenly... more info

• C'est fantastique
  At first I found it hard to get into and had to watch it in two sections as I got lost after the first 90mins (it is a whopping 192 mins - I say whopping as I have a short attention span!). The second part I watched was easier as the plot sort of clicked. I would highly recommend this film - it is visually beautiful and well worth sticking with.

• You will probably either love this or hate it - but it's a masterpiece
  I am so grateful for Film-Four for showing this rarely seen masterpiece, which has hopefully brought this film to a wider audience.
  It takes some patience and a great deal of dedication to watch for the first time, but if you can make the effort, each viewing after just gets better.
  As reviews often point out, it's rather like an adult version of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking glass, of which there are echoes throughout, and you never quite know what is real and what is hallucination. To... more info

• Watch when your resistance is low
  I'm surprised I made it through this. I watched it on DVD just after having had a minor car accident (a taxi back-ended me at traffic lights) so I was in that kind of heart-sick frame of soul, so i watched without resistance. I'm inclined to say it was formless, incomprehensible, rubbish, nonsensical...... and yet I can't quite dismiss it. I had also recently returned from Paris and had walked many of the streets of Montmartre that appear at the opening - that has appeal too. I'm not advocating you have a... more info

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