Rent Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
3.5 of 5 from 158 ratings
3h 12min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, finance, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-within-the-film' - a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the 'Phantom Ladies Over Paris' (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister man (Barbet Schroeder) and his child.
- Actors:
- Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar, Marie-Thérèse Saussure, Philippe Clévenot, Anne Zamire, Jean Douchet, Adèle Taffetas, Monique Clément, Jérôme Richard, Michael Graham, Jean-Marie Sénia, Jean-Claude Romer
- Directors:
- Jacques Rivette
- Producers:
- Barbet Schroeder
- Writers:
- Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Rivette, Eduardo de Gregorio, Henry James
- Aka:
- Céline et Julie vont en bateau - Phantom Ladies Over Paris
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Cinema Afloat: Part 3, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/11/2017
- Run Time:
- 194 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- A newly commissioned feature length commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin (2017)
- Jonathan Romney on Rivette and Celine and Julie Go Boating (2006, 19 mins)
- Toute la memoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956, 22 mins)
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop (WR Booth, 1901, 2 mins)
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Reviews (6) of Celine and Julie Go Boating
Enigmatic? - Celine and Julie Go Boating review by NW
External events meant that I could not watch this right through – it is well over three hours long – and I shall try again another day. It is beautifully, if enigmatically, filmed with a delightful dottiness of action which does start rather slow and puzzling. You need to watch in an unhurried mood and I shall certainly return to it.
3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Girls Misbehaving - Celine and Julie Go Boating review by MW
A very slow comedy of sorts made all the more ponderous by a plot involving endless repetitions of scenes in which the two kooky heroines learn a little more each time about a fantasy mystery which they conjure up by the sucking of a magic sweet. There's a faint, pleasing whiff of Magritte in the look and absurdity of the movie but this overlong shaggy dog story would have benefited from a seriously ruthless editor.
2 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Drifting Through the Looking Glass - Celine and Julie Go Boating review by griggs
Céline and Julie Go Boating is a dreamy, playful tangle of identity, memory, and Parisian magic. At times it feels like Lewis Carroll wandered in—logic left at the door, replaced by whimsy, wordplay, and winks to the audience. Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier are endlessly watchable, carrying the film with sheer charm and mischief. It’s as much about female friendship as it is about narrative games, inviting you to get lost in a loop of stories within stories. That said, it wasn’t always smooth sailing for me—some stretches really tested my patience, and if you’re looking for plot-driven clarity, it might well drive you round the bend. But once I gave myself over to its peculiar rhythm, I found it full of moments of pure delight. It’s the kind of film that resists easy explanation but lingers in your mind—like a half-remembered dream that somehow makes more sense the less you try to pin it down.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.