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Mr. Funktastic
Céline et Julie vont en bateau goes absolutely nowhere and takes 3 hours to get there.Dan Bull
I wish to let the record show that I really rather disliked this film. It was a slog to get through and I don't feel any the better for it. I think I still preferred it to the 2018 YouTube Rewind though.WalterNeff
Jacques Rivette ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé, mais regardez tous les chèques!ignatzkat
Playful, surreal, and very, very funny. Makes a great comedy/tragedy pair with "Mulholland Drive."Siskoid
If any movie has a claim to approaching the style of French Nouveau Roman, it's Jacques Rivette's Céline et Julie vont en bateau, a loopy rule-breaking quantum comedy in which the two heroines don't do much boating at all. Knowing a couple of expressions using the French word for boat, "bateau", may be in order. For starters, "monter un bateau" (to build a boat) means concocting a tall tale, which this movie definitely is (Céline is a pathological liar), while "aller en bateau" (taking a boat ride) means getting caught up in a story you're being told, which is how the two women get involved in a hoary melodrama/haunting thanks to Proustian editing and hallucinogenic candy. And then there's the one about being in the same boat (an expression that translates one-for-one in French), which justifies the motif of interchangeability that permeates the film. Though Céline and Julie are completely different characters, they are able to take each other's places in the haunted house's play (13 knocks, everyone!), but also in each other's lives (where Dominique Labourier has a career moment). Alchemical word play is also part of the game, as are the strange commonalities between the two women and the characters of the house. At more than 3 hours, in large part because scenes repeat with only slight additions several times, I thought I would get bored or frustrated with Rivette faffing about with movie logic, but no, it all definitely pays off in a wonderfully strange way.deckard.
rivette liked pierrot le fou so much that he wanted to make his own surreal, unconventional, daring piece but... failed.because it takes a genius to accomplish that. godard was that genius.
mattjacobs188
One of the great post-New Wave works!MilenaFlaherty
RIP, Monsieur Rivette. Celine & Julie is a great film. Where are you, Criterion?nicolaskrizan
very strange indeedhttp://1001movies.posterous.com/1052