Celine and Julie Go Boating
Synopsis
A story about story-telling, Jacques Rivette's self-referential classic centers on the fanciful world of two women literally lost in the stories they tell each other. Celine (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier) go from sharing a story about a haunted house to being part of a story about a haunted house -- or is it a real haunted house that has been called up by the story? The film blurs the line between the telling of the story and the story itself, as Celine and Julie, like Alice in Wonderland, become part of a surreal, drug-induced parallel universe; also like Alice, they ultimately become the heroines of the story that first imprisoned them. Rivette celebrates the magic of stories, and more broadly of imagination, adventure, and friendship, as essential elements of life; the themes are familiar from his other movies, but the tone is more playful. This enigmatic and fanciful film is not for all tastes, but, for its many devotees, it is one of the most distinctive and imaginative movies ever made.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Losange
- Co-productions : Action Films, VM Productions, Renn Productions, Films Christian Fechner , Simar Films, Groupement d'Art Cinématographique
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Losange
- French distribution : NEF Diffusion
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriters : Jacques Rivette, Juliet Berto, Eduardo De Gregorio, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
- Directors of Photography : Jean-Marie Sénia, Jacques Renard, Nicole Lubtchansky
- Assistant Director : Luc Béraud
- Editor : Nicole Lubtchansky
- Sound Recordist : Paul Lainé
- Producers : Barbet Schroeder, Vincent Malle
- Co-producers : Claude Berri, Christian Fechner, Marcel Berbert, Yves Gasser
- Sound Assistant : Gilbert Pereira
- Assistant Operator : Michel Cénet
- Assistant editor : Cristiana Tullio-Altan
- Continuity supervisor : Irène Lhomme
- Sound mixer : Elvire Lerner
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1973
- French release : 18/09/1974
- Runtime : 3 h 12 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 41651
- Visa issue date : 27/05/1974
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Audio format : Mono
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About the film
Magic is one of the themes of the film. Céline, the fetchingly clad stage magician, does her magic tricks in a nightclub performance, pouting and making faces as necessary. Magic seems to come too from Julie's Tarot card readings. Finally, "real" magic comes from the design of a potion, which enables both women to enter the house and take charge of the narrative.
At the start, the two women are leading relatively conventional lives, each having jobs (Julie, a librarian, is more conservative and sensible than Céline, a stage magician, with her bohemian lifestyle). The early scenes show the streets of Paris, marketplaces, and the steps and railway of Montmartre, which are shot in straight forward, realistic style favored by the nouvelle vague. As the film develops, Céline and Julie separate from the world by leaving their jobs, moving in together, and gradually becoming obsessed with the mysterious and magical events in the old house.
In one scene, according to critic Irina Janakievska, Julie is playing Tarot cards, with one of the cards interpreted as signifying that Julie's future is behind her — exactly when we see Céline, wearing a disguise, observing Julie from one of the library desks. As Céline draws an outline of her hand in one of the books, Julie echoes that as she plays with a red ink pad.
Another theme is memory, most obviously in the way events from the house are only remembered after the women have left, but only after some memory trigger occurs. For example, Julie spends all of one day in the house, but when she leaves, she has amnesia. It is only by sucking on the magic candy that the events she has witnessed return to her as flashbacks. At first the glimpses of a story are illogical and incoherent, but the two friends gradually piece them together into a narrative, and try to uncover the secrets being hidden from them, most importantly, who killed the little girl?
Another noticeable aspect of the film is its liberal use of puns. For instance, the title of the film, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, has other meanings from that of taking a boat ride: "aller en bateau" also means "to get caught up in a story that someone is telling you", or, in English, getting taken up in a "shaggy dog story".
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