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Céline and Julie Go Boating is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Rivette with Dominique Labourier

Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Céline and Julie Go Boating
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Length 3h12
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Fantasy
Rating71% 3.5939153.5939153.5939153.5939153.593915

Céline and Julie Go Boating (French: Céline et Julie vont en bateau) is a French film directed by Jacques Rivette.

As the film begins, we see a red-haired woman—we will learn that it is Julie (Dominique Labourier)--sitting on a bench in a pleasant but rather non-descript Parisian park. She is reading a book, we can see, on magic incantations. But after a few minutes of random looks around the park—children playing, a cat on the prowl for pigeons—Julie is suddenly taken by the sight of a lithe woman woozily staggering across the park, a long scarf dangling from her neck. No one else seems to notice the dazed woman when she drops that scarf except for Julie, who leaps up from her park bench. She calls after her. Julie will chase after Céline (Juliet Berto), at first seemingly only on the mundane task of returning a dropped scarf. But with just that simple act, the magic of the narrative—both of this particular story and, in Rivette's meta-approach, that of cinema itself—begins.

The film, referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Henry James' "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes," and Louis Feuillade's Les Vampires (Gaumont, 1915), won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1974 and was an Official Selection at the 1974 New York Film Festival. Marilù Parolini worked as the set photographer.

Synopsis

The film begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline's tram). After adventures following Céline around the Parisian streets — at one point it looks as if they have gone their separate ways, never to meet up again — Céline finally decides to move in with Julie. There are incidents of identity swapping, with Céline pretending to be Julie to meet the latter's childhood sweetheart, for example, and Julie attempting to fill in for Céline at a cabaret audition.

Actors

Dominique Labourier

(Julie)Juliet Berto

(Céline)Marie-France Pisier

(Sophie)Bulle Ogier

(Camille)Barbet Schroeder

(Olivier)
And :
Jean Douchet
Philippe Clévenot
Jean-Claude Biette
Jean Eustache
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