Céline and Julie Go Boating
Director: Jacques Rivette Run Time: 193 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Barbet Schroeder, Bulle Ogier, Dominique Labourier, Juliet Berto, Marie-France Pisier
50th Anniversary!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland meets the freewheeling invention of French New Wave gamesman Jacques Rivette in this giddy surrealist fantasia. When magician Céline (Berto) meets librarian Julie (Labourier), it’s not long before they are launched through the looking glass and straight into a labyrinthine comic adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder mystery as, all the while, the line between illusion and reality grows ever fainter. – Janus Films
“It’s as if Borges had cast Thelma and Louise in Groundhog Day.” – Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly
“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.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader