Céline and Julie Go Boating
Short description
Céline and Julie Go Boating follows two women in Paris whose chance meeting grows into an unusual partnership. Julie is a librarian attached to order and routine, while Céline is a stage magician given to impulse and invention. Their friendship draws them toward a large, secluded house that appears in an old photograph Julie has kept, a place where a widower, his young daughter and two women seem to replay the same domestic drama again and again, with the child's fate hanging over it. Céline and Julie slip between their ordinary lives and this other world, at first watching events unfold and then deciding to take part in them rather than remain spectators.
Jacques Rivette directed the film, which sits between The Nun and La Belle Noiseuse in his filmography. Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier play Céline and Julie; Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier and producer Barbet Schroeder also appear. The screenplay was written by Berto, Ogier and Labourier, and the film runs 193 minutes. It is a French production blending comedy, drama and fantasy.
On IMDb it holds 7.2/10 from around 7,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.8/10 from 171 votes. A critics' rating of 8.2/10 from 54 reviews is higher than both audience scores, indicating stronger admiration among reviewers than among the wider viewing public.
What's left behind the scenes
- It is commonly believed that much of this film is improvised, but this isn't entirely true. Director Jacques Rivette, having developed the film's structure, did not allow the actors to improvise, but instead involved them in working on the script. The only scene built on improvisation is the one where Celine brags to her friends about her wealthy American girlfriend. All other scenes were filmed strictly according to the text written by Rivette in collaboration with the lead actresses. The actresses wrote their own lines, while Rivette outlined the connections between the characters and scenes.
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