Celine and Julie Go Boating

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Celine and Julie Go Boating

Released Feb 24, 1978,

3h 10m,

Fantasy

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80%

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87%

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When Celine (Juliet Berto) goes traipsing across a Parisian park, unwittingly dropping first a scarf, then other objects, Julie (Dominique Labourier) cannot help but follow her, picking up each item. So begins a fanciful relationship between the two, which soon sees Celine sharing Julie's apartment and each of them playfully switching identities in their daily lives. As they increasingly indulge their fantasies, they find themselves trying to rescue a young girl from a supposedly haunted house.

Critics Consensus

If its flights of fancy can grow wearisome over its lengthy runtime, C茅line and Julie Go Boating often justifies its indulgence with wildly imaginative charm.

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Louise Sweet

Financial Times

Celine and Julie Go Boating casts several interweaving spells.

Mar 9, 2023

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Eric Shorter

Daily Telegraph (UK)

An elaborately cumbersome and self-indulgent exercise in highbrow fooling.

Mar 2, 2023

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Michael Blowen

Boston Globe

A cauldron of magic, symbol, humor, dreams, and skits, that is ultimately defeated by its inordinate length.

Mar 2, 2023

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Brian Susbielles

InSession Film

A super collaboration where no idea is discarded and lets the imagination run wild.

Mar 6, 2023

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Michael Billington

Birmingham Post

Even is the film's charm is a bit narcissistic, it is undeniable. And the girls themselves are delightful.

Mar 2, 2023

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Stanley Eichelbaum

San Francisco Examiner

The film has strong moments, but it's stretched too thin, and would have been far more effective if it were half as long.

Mar 2, 2023

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Audience Member

As far as 3 hour-long arthouse French movies go, you could do a lot worse than 'Celine and Julie Go Boating', an intersection of Alice in Wonderland and Remembrance of Things Past that effectively manages to mix the carefree with the strange.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Film within a film within a film. It's extraordinarily indulgent of an auteur director yet to be acquainted with an editing suite. The cinematography is magical, the actors cute and accessible, the world alluring but after 2 hours 45 minutes we had to call time and they hadn't even gone boating yet. There's a great 2 hour film in here somewhere but that wouldn't have got the reverence.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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dustin d

A hard movie to track down, but worth the effort. It is something of a Groundhog Day story about a couple women who keep entering the same haunted house on the same day to rescue a child who is about to be poisoned. It is trippy and engrossing and deserves wider appreciation.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

This is one of my favorite movies, ever. I first saw it around 30 years ago in film school, and it was like a small acid trip. I bought the film a few years ago and watched it again, and it's just as sweet and charming and fun. To get caught up in this film, for me, is like becoming a child again.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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s r

1001 movies to see before you die. This was an odd one with the focus on 2 female characters engaging in whimsical craziness. Sadly, it mostly was forgettable and tedious. It was on VIMEO.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Jacques Rivette

Director

Juliet Berto

Celine

Dominique Labourier

Julie

Bulle Ogier

Camille

Marie-France Pisier

Sophie

Barbet Schroeder

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Synopsis

When Celine (Juliet Berto) goes traipsing across a Parisian park, unwittingly dropping first a scarf, then other objects, Julie (Dominique Labourier) cannot help but follow her, picking up each item. So begins a fanciful relationship between the two, which soon sees Celine sharing Julie's apartment and each of them playfully switching identities in their daily lives. As they increasingly indulge their fantasies, they find themselves trying to rescue a young girl from a supposedly haunted house.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Genre: Fantasy
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 24, 1978, Limited
Runtime: 3h 10m