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  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 3 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 3 h 13 m
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Summary This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie, a librarian, and the flamboyant Celine, a magician of sorts - a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right through the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. With the help of some magic, memory-inducing candy, Celine and Julie get plugged into a bizarre drama in a mysterious, po...

Directed By: Jacques Rivette

Written By: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Eduardo de Gregorio, Henry James, Jacques Rivette

  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 3 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 3 h 13 m

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie, a librarian, and the flamboyant Celine, a magician of sorts - a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right through the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. With the help of some magic, memory-inducing candy, Celine and Julie get plugged into a bizarre drama in a mysterious, po...

Directed By: Jacques Rivette

Written By: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Eduardo de Gregorio, Henry James, Jacques Rivette

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Jan 14, 2023
The pace is daringly languid — at times it seems more like a daydream on a sunny park bench than a movie — but you’ll emerge from this wonderland as if from vacation, and you’ll never look at the intersection between life and storytelling in quite the same way.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
100
May 2, 2012
The playfulness of Rivette's sublime female-buddy picture, recalling the fun of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," would inform Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan" 11 years later. But its greatest descendant is David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive," another film about two women erotically attached, a house with a secret, and transformation.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
100
May 2, 2012
By the time they've taken full control of the movie's alternate universe-as the melodrama morphs with marvelous ease into a musical comedy-you feel like anything is possible. Cinema this alive is a rare bird, indeed.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
100
May 2, 2012
Don't let the women's smirks and wordplay fool you: The fact that art is eternal often makes it more horrifying than life itself.
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Production Company Action Films, Les Films 7, Les Films Christian Fechner, Les Films du Losange, Renn Productions, Saga, Simar Productions, V.M. Productions
Release Date May 4, 2012
Duration 3 h 13 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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