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Celine and Julie Go Boating

Original title: Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris
1974 · 3 h 13 min
Directed by Jacques Rivette
ComedyDramaFantasy

Cast

Juliet Berto Dominique Labourier Bulle Ogier

Credits

Written by: Juliet Berto

Plot

Julie, a librarian, meets the eccentric Céline in a Paris park, and they become friends. The two women enter a mysterious house, where a melodrama of jealousy and murder repeats itself, and they find that a magic sweet allows them to watch it and change its outcome. Jacques Rivette's 1974 film, playful and improvised and over three hours long, is a celebration of female friendship and the imagination.

Sinekatalog’s take

Jacques Rivette's playful fantasy has two women entering a haunted house to watch a murder melodrama repeat. Long, dreamy and witty, with sweets that induce visions, it is a joyous feminist riff on cinema and storytelling.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (7,252 votes)
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